From d6fa12c0f9b093f127b7cd1466938d167369ce36 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 23:41:33 +0000 Subject: (touch invocation): The old usage works only for 1969-1999 now. --- doc/coreutils.texi | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 7166352bc..1075d9618 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -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 -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf