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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2005-11-01 23:41:33 +0000
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2005-11-01 23:41:33 +0000
commitd6fa12c0f9b093f127b7cd1466938d167369ce36 (patch)
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parentfd449d30a8da750fbeb4338ddc7b2ae3001e327f (diff)
downloadcoreutils-d6fa12c0f9b093f127b7cd1466938d167369ce36.tar.xz
(touch invocation): The old usage works only for 1969-1999 now.
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@@ -8726,7 +8726,8 @@ If no timestamp is given with any of the @option{-d}, @option{-r}, or
@option{-t} options, and if there are two or more @var{file}s and the
first @var{file} is of the form @samp{@var{MMDDhhmm}[@var{YY}]} and this
would be a valid argument to the @option{-t} option (if the @var{YY}, if
-any, were moved to the front), that argument is interpreted as the time
+any, were moved to the front), and if the represented year
+is in the range 1969--1999, that argument is interpreted as the time
for the other files instead of as a file name.
This obsolete behavior can be enabled or disabled with the
@env{_POSIX2_VERSION} environment variable (@pxref{Standards