Re: Is there a POSIX compliant way of turning a "HH:MM:SS" formatted string to seconds? ...

To: Alain D D Williams <addw@phcomp.co.uk>
Cc: Debian User <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Is there a POSIX compliant way of turning a "HH:MM:SS" formatted string to seconds? ...
From: lbrtchx@tutamail.com
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2025 00:27:04 +0200 (CEST)
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_HHMMSS="19:09" means 19*60 + 9 = 1149 seconds

_HHMMSS="19:08" means 19*60 + 8 = 1148 seconds

so, it seems date is also somehow parsing that value as octal even though it is being formatted in a date friendly way. is there a way to exactly specify the encoding of the input for date?

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