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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: date:  bad conversion
Message-ID: <1989Nov12.182607.9867@virtech.uucp>
Date: 12 Nov 89 18:26:07 GMT
References: <452@abel.UUCP>
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc.
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In article <452@abel.UUCP>, jma@abel.UUCP (Jeff Abrahamson) writes:
> 
> 	I have been having news articles come in and put in *files*
> with bad dates.  That is, I can do an "ls -l nnnn" and find out how long
> they've been here, but if I try to do a "touch nnnn", I get the
> message "date: bad conversion".  This is the file!  (Needless to say,
> I have some expire problems, too.)

The problem with touch is that the first argument, if numeric, is interpreted
to be the date/time to set the file to.  In your case you want to set a numeric
file to the current date.  This can be accomplished by the following:

	touch ./nnnn



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