Date fails on dd/mm/yyyy

[Loïc Grenié]

On Sun Jan 28th, 2024 at 12:01, Peter Flynn wrote:

> Does anyone know if the date(1) utility will ever be updated to accept a
> date in non-American dd/mm/yyyy order. It is fairly good at working out
> other date formats as input with -d but this format fails. It's fine
> when reversed (yyyy/mm/dd).
>
> I'm using the version from GNU coreutils 8.30 (September 2019). Has it
> been updated since then?
>

    coreutils 9.4.3, date -d dd/mm/yyyy understands mm/dd/yyyy (american
  style). I seriously doubt it will ever be changed. You'll have to adapt:
either
  write a filter, or change your output (yyyy/mm/dd is not that bad: it
respect
  alphabetical order as well).

          Good luck,

                Loïc
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