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Subject: date: add example on how to parse unix timestamps
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Package: coreutils
Version: 5.2.1-2
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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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Subject: date add example for unix timestamps
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There is quite a bit of language about unix times in the info docs. The
date command is complicated enough that you pretty much can't avoid
reading the full info about it; I don't see a practical way of adding
all the nifty features onto the manpage and still have it readable.
FYI, date currently supports date -d '@1123341579' to avoid the date -d
'01/01/1970 1123341579 seconds GMT' construct.
Mike Stone
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