feat: date does not support dots, gnu does in 9.11
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Description
Hi, uutils mainteners
it seems uu date
relunsec@relunsec:~/software/coreutils/target/debug$ ./date -d "11.12.2026"
date: invalid date '11.12.2026'
relunsec@relunsec:~/software/coreutils/target/debug$
not support at all that gnu coreutils 9.11 feature, is present in gnu
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Run the reported ./date -d "11.12.2026" case first, then trace the date command's parsing entry point and compare accepted formats with GNU coreutils 9.11. Done means the dotted date is accepted with matching behavior and the case has regression coverage.
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- rust
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- cli
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- Feature
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