date --date does not support strings like "Jul 18 06:14:49 2024 GMT"

[joergdw]

Dear maintainers,

unlike coreutils from the GNU project, date can not deal with the following situation:

date --date "Jul 18 06:14:49 2024 GMT" +%s
#> date: invalid date 'Jul 18 06:14:49 2024 GMT'

Can you please add support for time strings in that format?

[joergdw]

Perhaps this is related to https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/2685.

[dhilst]

I'm working on this in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6667

[jfinkels]

The parsing now lives in https://github.com/uutils/parse_datetime so that's where this would need to be fixed

[cakebaker]

This issue has been fixed in the meantime. On main:

$ cargo run -q date --date "Jul 18 06:14:49 2024 GMT" +%s
1721283289

Thanks for reporting!