Am 30.05.2011 00:18, schrieb Henry Gebhardt: > On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 09:28:47PM -0500, Dale wrote: >> >> I went back to the man page, it sort of left the @ out on mine: >> >> -d, --date=STRING >> display time described by STRING, not `now' >> >> No mention of the @ sign there. It does say to read the info file but I >> very rarely get into those. I never have had any good luck with them. > > May I suggest sending a patch upstream? That'd be pretty cool. Just fix > it in the right place where everyone will find it. I bet other people > would appreciate it, too. > > > Thanks, > > H >
Just adding the @ will not be sufficient. The STRING can be in many different formats. `date -d 'last tuesday'` also works, for example. You have to add a whole new section to the man page -- or just refer to the info page ;-) Regards, Florian Philipp
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