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bug#14535: Wishlist: date(1): missing search keyword (UTC)
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Pádraig Brady |
Subject: |
bug#14535: Wishlist: date(1): missing search keyword (UTC) |
Date: |
Mon, 03 Jun 2013 00:47:33 +0100 |
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On 06/02/2013 12:21 PM, Andreas Mohr wrote:
> Hi,
>
> just did man date, searched for "UTC" yet failed to hit the desired
> -u (--utc) section (IOW, a somewhat annoying productivity roadbump).
>
> Thus it would be useful to extend
> -u, --utc, --universal
> print or set Coordinated Universal Time
> to
> -u, --utc, --universal
> print or set Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)
>
> in order to avoid dearly wasted seconds of a many users' lifetime :)
>
>
> I would have submitted a format-patch vs. master, but due to the confusing
> (but likely useful) indirection in source I failed to successfully grep
> on where to change things (likely in src/date.c/usage() since that output
> possibly gets auto-generated into man pages,
> but perhaps somewhere else as well).
Yes that's a bit better and fits in the line,
so I've pushed that in your name.
Note personally I use "smartcase" matching,
and so usually search for lower case to match case insensitively.
I use vim as my MANPAGER, but you can also use this with less
by setting 'i' in your LESS env variable.
cheers,
Pádraig.