bug#42470: Help text update suggestion for "date" util

[Wes Novack]

Yes, I meant Pull Request when I said PR. Thank you for the information and
for incorporating the suggested update!

On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 4:18 PM Bernhard Voelker 
wrote:

> [sorry, this one hung in my outbox ... not sure if this helps though]
>
> On 2020-07-25 17:07, Wes Novack wrote:
> > For future reference, what is the PR process?
>
> Not exactly sure what you mean with "PR".
> If you refer to the process of reporting bugs, making suggestions, sending
> patches, etc., then please refer to the corresponding sections at:
>   https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/
>
> If PR is meant as "(git) pull request": just plain patches are sent
> to the mailing list(s). Please see:
>   https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/README-hacking
>
> Have a nice day,
> Berny
>

bug#42470: Help text update suggestion for "date" util

[Wes Novack]

Thank you! For future reference, what is the PR process?

On Sat, Jul 25, 2020, 8:18 AM Bernhard Voelker 
wrote:

> On 2020-07-21 19:45, Wes Novack wrote:
> > Greetings! For the GNU coreutils "date" utility, I would like to suggest
> > updating the help text
> >
> > from %s seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
> > to %s seconds since the epoch, 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
> >
> > This was suggested in this StackOverflow post and has received many (45)
> > upvotes.
> >
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1092631/get-current-time-in-seconds-since-the-epoch-on-linux-bash#comment10059260_1092643
> >
> > Would you consider this update?
>
> Thanks for the suggestion.
>
> Paul fixed it with this commit:
>   https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=fa7a5074d7
>
> Marking this as done.
>
> Have a nice day,
> Berny
>

bug#42470: Help text update suggestion for "date" util

[Wes Novack]

Greetings! For the GNU coreutils "date" utility, I would like to suggest
updating the help text

from %s seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
to %s seconds since the epoch, 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC

This was suggested in this StackOverflow post and has received many (45)
upvotes.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1092631/get-current-time-in-seconds-since-the-epoch-on-linux-bash#comment10059260_1092643

Would you consider this update?

Thank you!
Wes