Touch -d forms

[der.hans]

Am 29. Mar, 2013 schwätzte Dazed_75 so:

moin moin,

> Looking to change some file dares to 14 hours later than the current file
> date/time stamps (they are NOT all the same).  I was thinking some form of
> the -d option would work but nothing I have tried works-

$ date; touch -d "$( date -d "+14 hours" +%Y%b%d )" /tmp/fred; ls -l
/tmp/fred 
Fr 29. Mär 16:57:45 MST 2013
-rw-r--r-- 1 lufthans lufthans 0 2013-03-30 01:13 /tmp/fred

The "+14 hours" only works with GNU date, but that's what we get on
GNU/Linux. BSD date really didn't like it :).

ciao,

der.hans
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