Debian 6.0.4 i386 /usr/bin/time command line arguments broken?

[David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com>]

debian-user:

I was attempting to use the "time" command to do some benchmarking 
today, and it seems that command line arguments are broken (see console 
session, below).


Any suggestions?


TIA,

David



2012-03-10 14:16:12 dpchrist@p43400e ~
$ time

real	0m0.000s
user	0m0.000s
sys	0m0.000s

2012-03-10 14:16:17 dpchrist@p43400e ~
$ time -o foo.out echo 'foo'
-bash: -o: command not found

real	0m0.001s
user	0m0.000s
sys	0m0.000s

2012-03-10 14:16:19 dpchrist@p43400e ~
$ time --help
-bash: --help: command not found

real	0m0.001s
user	0m0.000s
sys	0m0.000s

2012-03-10 14:16:22 dpchrist@p43400e ~
$ cat /etc/debian_version
6.0.4

2012-03-10 14:16:30 dpchrist@p43400e ~
$ uname -a
Linux p43400e 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Mon Jan 16 16:04:25 UTC 2012 i686 
GNU/Linux

2012-03-10 14:19:01 dpchrist@p43400e ~
$ set | grep TIME