From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 04:28:22 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Get year as last rather than 6th field in output of date.
X-Git-Tag: TEXTUTILS-1_14c~2
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1c4ecd2a955ec5b11d88ea653ce001e63f20bd26;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

Get year as last rather than 6th field in output of date.
Otherwise, people with 2-word TZ (like `MET DST') lost.
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diff --git a/doc/mdate-sh b/doc/mdate-sh
index 4f3820e995..9249f163ef 100755
--- a/doc/mdate-sh
+++ b/doc/mdate-sh
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ day=$2
 # Here we have to deal with the problem that the ls output gives either
 # the time of day or the year.
 case $3 in
-  *:*) set `date`; year=$6
+  *:*) set `date`; eval year=\$$#
        case $2 in
 	 Jan) nummonthtod=1;;
 	 Feb) nummonthtod=2;;