bug(touch): military prefixes that end with j not accepted by --date
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Description
Hi, uutils mainteners
miliatry prefixes that ends with 'j', they rejected by uu touch but accepted perfectly by gnu
as our test confirms
relunsec@relunsec:~/software/coreutils/target/debug$ touch --date=1j myfile
touch: Unable to parse date: 1j
relunsec@relunsec:~/software/coreutils/target/debug$ gnutouch --date=1j myfile
relunsec@relunsec:~/software/coreutils/target/debug$
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Start by tracing how the touch command handles the --date=1j argument and compare its parsing behavior with GNU touch. Confirm the existing date-parsing test coverage, then add coverage for military prefixes ending in j and make the behavior accept 1j as GNU touch does.
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