From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 06:22:13 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Document "touch" POSIX-conformance fix.
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Document "touch" POSIX-conformance fix.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index bb8a50d9c4..81937b8d48 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -103,6 +103,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
     like %#d, instead of relying on undefined behavior in the underlying
     printf function.
 
+  "touch -- MMDDhhmm[yy] file" is now equivalent to
+  "touch MMDDhhmm[yy] file" even when conforming to pre-2001 POSIX.
+
   who now prints user names in full instead of truncating them after 8 bytes.
 
 ** New features