Bug 15883 - chage doesn't understand YYYY-MM-DD format - contrary to man page
Summary: chage doesn't understand YYYY-MM-DD format - contrary to man page
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
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Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: shadow-utils
Version: 6.2
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
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Reported: 2000-08-09 19:07 UTC by John Dalbec
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-08-09 19:07:12 UTC
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Description John Dalbec 2000-08-09 19:07:10 UTC 
According to the man page, chage should understand dates in the format YYYY-MM-DD.
This does not appear to work.  Instead, chage interprets YYYY-MM-DD to mean YYYY days since the epoch.
MM and DD are ignored.  However, YYYY/MM/DD works fine.  I have observed this only on the S/390 platform,
but the source only looks for a date if it has a "/" in it.
You could (a) fix chage to look for dates with hyphens
or (b) fix the man page to say YYYY/MM/DD.
Thanks,
John
Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2000-08-30 13:33:10 UTC 
Fixed in 20000826-2.
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