Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know, on the info page that says > > `%s' > seconds since the epoch, i.e., 1 January 1970 00:00:00 UTC (a GNU > > please add a Info-follow-reference right there, to your > > Jim> example showing how to do that: > > Jim> * If you're sorting or graphing dated data, your raw date values may > Jim> be represented as seconds since the epoch. But few people can > > and, at the top where he starts talking about the antidote to %s, > maybe put in this example: > > $ date > Sun Jun 15 10:33:43 GMT-8 2003 > $ date -d "1970-01-01 $(date +%s) seconds" > Sun Jun 15 02:33:43 GMT-8 2003 > $ date -d "1970-01-01 UTC $(date +%s) seconds" > Sun Jun 15 10:33:43 GMT-8 2003 > > as I think it gets the point across more directly maybe, about local > time zones.
Thanks for all your good feedback. I'm keeping it all for a rainy day (it never seems to rain here) or until someone sends in a patch implementing the changes. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
