date: invalid option — 'c'

Question

I'm trying to connect to the hosting via ssh. But have this problem:

$ ssh my_login@my_ip
my_login@my_ip's password: 
date: invalid option -- 'c'
Try `date --help' for more information.
Connection to my_ip closed.

What is it?

Answer 1

If you can connect by other means, check you .profile and .bashrc (or .kshrc , depending on the default shell) for any date command.

The idea is to keep those files as lean/small as possible first, then add back their content in order to determine what causes this error message.