source: MondoRescue/branches/2.2.9/mindi-busybox/testsuite/date/date-works

dt=`busybox date`
# Expected format: Fri Apr 25 03:47:55 CEST 2008
dt=`echo "$dt" | sed 's/^[^ ][^ ][^ ] [^ ][^ ][^ ] [ 0123][0-9] [012][0-9]:[0-5][0-9]:[0-6][0-9] [A-Z][A-Z]* [012][0-9][0-9][0-9]$/OK/'`
test x"$dt" = x"OK"

dt=`busybox date -d 1:2`
dt=`echo "$dt" | cut -b12-19`
test x"$dt" = x"01:02:00"

dt=`busybox date -d 1:2:3`
dt=`echo "$dt" | cut -b12-19`
test x"$dt" = x"01:02:03"

dt=`busybox date -d 1.2-3:4`
dt=`echo "$dt" | cut -b5-19`
test x"$dt" = x"Jan  2 03:04:00"

dt=`busybox date -d 1.2-3:4:5`
dt=`echo "$dt" | cut -b5-19`
test x"$dt" = x"Jan  2 03:04:05"

dt=`busybox date -d 1999.1.2-3:4`
dt=`echo "$dt" | cut -b1-19`
test x"$dt" = x"Sat Jan  2 03:04:00"

dt=`busybox date -d 1999.1.2-3:4:5`
dt=`echo "$dt" | cut -b1-19`
test x"$dt" = x"Sat Jan  2 03:04:05"

dt=`busybox date -d '1999-1-2 3:4:5'`
dt=`echo "$dt" | cut -b1-19`
test x"$dt" = x"Sat Jan  2 03:04:05"

dt=`busybox date -d 01231133`
dt=`echo "$dt" | cut -b5-19`
test x"$dt" = x"Jan 23 11:33:00"

dt=`busybox date -d 200001231133`
dt=`echo "$dt" | cut -b1-19`
test x"$dt" = x"Sun Jan 23 11:33:00"

dt=`busybox date -d 200001231133.30`
dt=`echo "$dt" | cut -b1-19`
test x"$dt" = x"Sun Jan 23 11:33:30"