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bug#8782: date command


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: bug#8782: date command
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2011 11:11:54 +0200

Pádraig Brady wrote:
...
>> Jumpin' whale gills!
>
> Well when you put it like that :)

Heh ;-)  I had the same reaction.

>> I wish I'd known about the -d @ function! I ended
>> up writing my own in Perl utility just to convert epochs to dates.
>>
>> I'm with Rick on this one. Date supports so many different date formats
>> without any special arbitrary characters designating the format. The
>> average sys admin just assumes the most simple date format in the world
>> would also work the same way.
>>
>> Since -d @1234 is so useful, and since it uncharacteristically requires
>> an arbitrary prefix code, I think that it would be a very good to put it
>> in all forms of documentation, even where the dozens of other obvious
>> uses are not documented.
>
> OK how about I put the last 3 or 4 examples from
> http://www.pixelbeat.org/cmdline.html#dates
> in an EXAMPLE section in the man page.

Good examples.
I like the idea.





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