Hi Michael, On Sun, Jan 25, 2026 at 09:02:05AM -0500, Michael Aramini wrote: > Alejandro, et al., > > This is a /man-pages/ bug report for "date(1) — Linux manual page" ( > https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/date.1.html ) pertaining to formatting > of the man page.
The date(1) manual page is maintained by GNU coreutils; it's not part of the Linux man-pages project. I've CCed them. > > The line > > *date *[/-u|--utc|--universal/] [/MMDDhhmm/[[/CC/]/YY/][/.ss/]] > > represented in HTML as > > <b>date </b>[<i>-u|--utc|--universal</i>] > [<i>MMDDhhmm</i>[[<i>CC</i>]<i>YY</i>][<i>.ss</i>]] > > should, following man page formatting style, be formatted > > *date *[*-u*|*--utc*|*--universal*] [/MMDDhhmm/[[/CC/]/YY/][*.*/ss/]] > > represented in HTML as > > <b>date </b>[<b-u</b>|<b>--utc</b>|<b>--universal</b>] > [<i>MMDDhhmm</i>[[<i>CC</i>]<i>YY</i>][<b>.</b><i>ss</i>]] > > I.e. the "*-u*", "*--utc*", "*--universal*", and decimal point should be > (*non*-italic) *bold* as they are are not variables, but are potentially > verbatim text on the command line. Also, the vertical bars are syntax > symbols, which are neither variables nor verbatim text, thus should be in > regular/roman typeface, *not* italic (nor bold). I agree with the bug report. > -Michael Have a lovely day! Alex -- <https://www.alejandro-colomar.es>
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