larry price wrote:
>
> the disappearance of the -v option from other forms of date seems
> counterproductive.
>
Well, of course! It's GNU, it needs to be gratuitously different! Like
the lack of the -o option in ls to display filesystem flags, one of my
favorite GNU deletions!
--
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!], 'Pray,
Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right
answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of
confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
-- Charles Babbage
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