[Emacs-bug-tracker] bug#8064: closed (anyone home?)

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> Thu, 17 Feb 2011 11:27:37 -0600
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> anyone home?
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> to help lowly newbies with the "date" command in bash. 
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> please include 1 example that shows the '+' character in front of the format string. It winds up taking a lot of looking to figure out this simple syntax.
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> Thanks
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> David Heitzman 
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> David H wrote:
> > anyone home?
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> > to help lowly newbies with the "date" command in bash.
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> > please include 1 example that shows the '+' character in front of the format
> > string. It winds up taking a lot of looking to figure out this simple
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> I ran "info coreutils date" (because "man date" suggests it),
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>      $ date +'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z'  # %z is a GNU extension.
>      2004-02-29 16:21:42 -0800
>      $ date +'@%s.%N'  # %s and %N are GNU extensions.
>      @1078100502.692722128
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