-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Bruce Jerrick on 5/27/2009 8:00 PM: > The man page for date(1) does not document that a date string for the > -d (--date) option can be given as seconds-from-the-epoch, if preceded > by '@'. E.g.: 'date -d @1243474654'. (Do you have any idea how many > years I've been wanting that functionality, but thought that date didn't > do it???)
That format is already documented in the info pages. It is also documented in the FAQ: http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#The-date-command-is-not-working-right_002e There are too many valid date formats to document them all in the man page, so we've gone with a minimalistic approach and a reference to the info page instead. > > A fix (to man/date.1 of coreutils-7.2.tar.gz) is included below. Unfortunately, man/date.1 is a generated file. You need to patch the upstream file instead, src/date.c, in the usage() function. I'll leave it to others whether your patch is worthwhile or adds too much bulk to the already verbose 'date --help' output. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [email protected] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkohncgACgkQ84KuGfSFAYBV5wCghpHcm4P8tMCDzSWvsk1J9M6i LhIAmwcpJLWOrDNVbs0EabMReKbSerrW =+u4u -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
