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From: Toby Allsopp <Toby.Allsopp@navman.co.nz>
Subject: Re: 1.5.25: bug in touch statement
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 13:16:47 +1300
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On Mon, Mar 28 2011, andre wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I can't do on cygwin 1.5.25 : 
> $ touch -t 201103270200 file 
> touch: format de date invalide `201103270200' 
>
> nor this equivalent : $touch -t 03270200 file
>
> It's very surprising , but ... 
> If I change 27 for 28 it's OK - idem if i change 2011 by 2010... 

I would guess this has something to do with the transition to daylight
saving time, which happened at 0200 on 2011-03-27.  This means that the
time you are specifying didn't ever exist (in your local time zone)
because 0200 became 0300.

Perhaps you can get what you want by specifying the time in UTC?

Regards,
Toby.


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