3 Jan
2000
3 Jan
'00
5:07 a.m.
Similar minor problem here. An ancient version of GNU date was still in-use, and it didn't seem to like the year.
$ date -d "`date`" date: invalid date.
Indeed, date seems to be one of the things which required patching. On a retired, unpatched, SunOS 4.1.3_U1 machine, date returned strange things:
date +%y%m%d produces :00103
date +%Y%m%d gives date: bad format character - Y
once patched it gives 000103 and accepts %Y date +%Y%m%d 20000103
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