Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
2005-02-26 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* coreutils.texi (Padding and other flags): Mention # flag.
Thanks for mentioning the problem. I went through the source and
documentation with a fine-toothed comb, compared them to what POSIX
specifieds, and installed the following changes.
Not that this addresses the original complaint. Date's usage strings
should be brief, and I couldn't see any way to explain it the way that
he preferred without becoming either more confusing or too prolix (or
both).
2005-03-08 Paul Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* doc/coreutils.texi (date invocation): Use an example that makes it
clear tha the default date use space-padded day of month.
Replace directive with conversion specifier to be consistent
with POSIX. All uses changed.
Fix menu RHS to match actual directive lists.
(Time conversion specifiers): Renamed from Time directives.
Use @samp consistently, sometimes instead of @code.
Consistently ention which specifiers are GNU extensions.
Give more examples (in some cases, instead of ranges).
Say why %F is preferred for dates.
(Date conversion specifiers): Renamed from Date directives.
Likewise for other changes.
(Padding and other flags): Correct the description.
Document #. Give an example for %9B.
* src/date.c (usage): Redo to match recent documentation changes.
Don't bother documenting which usages are GNU extensions; the list
wasn't correct, and is better left to the printed manual anyway.
Index: doc/coreutils.texi
===
RCS file: /fetish/cu/doc/coreutils.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.242
diff -p -u -r1.242 coreutils.texi
--- doc/coreutils.texi 24 Feb 2005 00:27:44 - 1.242
+++ doc/coreutils.texi 8 Mar 2005 22:18:55 -
@@ -395,13 +395,13 @@ System context
@command{date}: Print or set system date and time
-* Time directives:: Time directives
-* Date directives:: Date directives
-* Literal directives:: Literal directives
-* Padding and other flags:: Padding and other flags
-* Setting the time:: Setting the time
-* Options for date:: Options for @command{date}
-* Examples of date:: Examples of @command{date}
+* Time conversion specifiers:: %[HIklMNpPrRsSTXzZ]
+* Date conversion specifiers:: %[aAbBcCdDeFgGhjmuUVwWxyY]
+* Literal conversion specifiers:: %[%nt]
+* Padding and other flags:: Pad with zeroes, spaces, etc.
+* Setting the time:: Changing the system clock.
+* Options for date:: Instead of the current time.
+* Examples of date:: Examples.
Modified command invocation
@@ -11417,7 +11417,7 @@ date [-u|--utc|--universal] @c this avoi
Invoking @command{date} with no @var{format} argument is equivalent to invoking
it with a default format that depends on the @env{LC_TIME} locale category.
In the default C locale, this format is @samp{'+%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Z %Y'},
-so the output looks like @samp{Fri Feb 27 13:47:51 PST 2004}.
+so the output looks like @samp{Thu Mar @ 3 13:47:51 PST 2005}.
@vindex TZ
Normally, @command{date} uses the time zone rules indicated by the
@@ -11432,165 +11432,179 @@ If given an argument that starts with a
current time and date (or the time and date specified by the
@option{--date} option, see below) in the format defined by that argument,
which is similar to that of the @code{strftime} function. Except for
-directives, which start with @samp{%}, characters in the format string
-are printed unchanged. The directives are described below.
+conversion specifiers, which start with @samp{%}, characters in the
+format string are printed unchanged. The conversion specifiers are
+described below.
@exitstatus
@menu
-* Time directives:: %[HIklMprsSTXzZ]
-* Date directives:: %[aAbBcCdDhjmUwWxyY]
-* Literal directives:: %[%nt]
-* Padding and other flags:: Pad with zeroes, spaces (%_), etc.
-* Setting the time::Changing the system clock.
-* Options for date::Instead of the current time.
-* Examples of date::Examples.
+* Time conversion specifiers:: %[HIklMNpPrRsSTXzZ]
+* Date conversion specifiers:: %[aAbBcCdDeFgGhjmuUVwWxyY]
+* Literal conversion specifiers:: %[%nt]
+* Padding and other flags::Pad with zeroes, spaces, etc.
+* Setting the time:: Changing the system clock.
+* Options for date:: Instead of the current time.
+* Examples of date:: Examples.
@end menu
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