From adb7f7bca71b0c17c796bd8983cb8f00b3ded85d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joerg Wunsch <joerg@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 20:06:15 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix the broken `date HHMM.SS' handling.

PR:		bin/4661
Submitted by:	blank@sliphost37.uni-trier.de (Sascha Blank)
---
 bin/date/date.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/bin/date/date.c b/bin/date/date.c
index 14b2b671b9cd..73a379064d1d 100644
--- a/bin/date/date.c
+++ b/bin/date/date.c
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
  * OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
  * SUCH DAMAGE.
  *
- *	$Id: date.c,v 1.16 1997/08/10 16:36:59 brian Exp $
+ *	$Id: date.c,v 1.17 1997/08/10 16:37:33 brian Exp $
  */
 
 #ifndef lint
@@ -213,7 +213,8 @@ setthetime(fmt, p)
 		} else
 			lt->tm_sec = 0;
 
-		switch (strlen(p)) {
+		/* if p has a ".ss" field then let's pretend it's not there */
+		switch (strlen(p) - ((dot != NULL) ? 3 : 0)) {
 		case 10:				/* yy */
 			lt->tm_year = ATOI2(p);
 			if (lt->tm_year < 69)		/* hack for 2000 ;-} */