This doesn't appear to be a bug. As it stands that day listed in the
description seems to be affected by a Daylight Savings Time issue, where
the time may physically not exist in the system's timezone.
When the timezone present is set to Etc/Utc this issue does not occur.
When in a timezone affected by Daylight Savings Time (such as
America/New_York, which my own system is set to), this issue appears
because the date can't exist (due to DST).
Therefore, this is a TZ/daylight savings time related issue, not a bug
in the `touch` program.
** Changed in: coreutils (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1403301
Title:
Ubuntu 12.04 touch -t does not work for March 9 2014
Status in coreutils package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Bug description:
Version of Ubuntu used:
lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise
I am using touch -t to generate files to test backup file rotation. 'touch'
does not believe March 9, 2014 is a valid date.
Working:
touch -t "201303090220" somefile
touch -t "201403100220" somefile
Not working:
touch -t "201403090220" broke
touch: invalid date format `201403090220'
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