[Bug 1464051] [NEW] at does not respect the [.ss] portion of the -t option

Jim Rollenhagen jim at jimrollenhagen.com
Thu Jun 11 00:45:48 UTC 2015


Public bug reported:

The seconds in the time string passed to -t is explicitly dropped in all
cases. See: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-
maint/at.git/tree/at.c#n860

Thus the job is always locked to HH:MM:00.

Ubuntu release:
$ lsb_release -rd
Description:	Ubuntu 15.04
Release:	15.04

Package version:
$ apt-cache policy at
at:
  Installed: 3.1.16-1ubuntu1
  Candidate: 3.1.16-1ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 3.1.16-1ubuntu1 0
        500 http://mirror.rackspace.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Expected result:
$ at -t 201506101624.05
warning: commands will be executed using /bin/sh
at> echo hi
at> <EOT>
job 1 at Wed Jun 10 16:24:05 2015

Actual result: 
$ at -t 201506101624.05
warning: commands will be executed using /bin/sh
at> echo hi
at> <EOT>
job 1 at Wed Jun 10 16:24:00 2015

** Affects: at (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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