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Package: coreutils
Version: 5.2.1-2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Hello,
thanks for packaging coreutils.
It's always tricky with date to work with timestamps, especially to have
it parse them. An EXAMPLES section in the manpage could help; this is a
proposal:
--- date.1 2005-08-06 17:32:59.000000000 +0200
+++ date.1.enrico 2005-08-06 17:34:59.720187776 +0200
@@ -178,6 +178,14 @@
.IP
`-' (hyphen) do not pad the field
`_' (underscore) pad the field with spaces
+.SH EXAMPLES
+.nf
+ # Print the current date as unix timestamp
+ date +%s
+
+ # Parse a unix timestamp
+ date -d "01/01/1970 1123341579 seconds GMT"
+.fi
.SH AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie.
.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
Ciao,
Enrico
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Enrico Zini wrote:
> +.SH EXAMPLES
> +.nf
> + # Print the current date as unix timestamp
> + date +%s
> +
> + # Parse a unix timestamp
> + date -d "01/01/1970 1123341579 seconds GMT"
> +.fi
The upstream man page available in Debian now includes:
EXAMPLES
Convert seconds since the epoch (1970-01-01 UTC) to a date
$ date --date='@2147483647'
Show the time on the west coast of the US (use tzselect(1) to find TZ)
$ TZ='America/Los_Angeles' date
Show the local time for 9AM next Friday on the west coast of the US
$ date --date='TZ="America/Los_Angeles" 09:00 next Fri'
This feature was added in the recent coreutils 8.13 (commit 77d41d).
I believe that with the addition of these examples upstream that this
bug has been resolved and can be closed. I will do so with this
message.
Bob
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