Thanks for reporting the problem. It'd be a bit of a pain to implement
your suggestion exactly since the synopsis is generated automatically.
However, I installed the attached to try to attack the problem of
confusion that you reported.
It's been years since I set the date by hand but we might
On the 'date' man and info pages,
SYNOPSIS
date [OPTION]... [+FORMAT]
date [-u|--utc|--universal] [MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss]]
Synopses:
date [OPTION]... [+FORMAT]
date [-u|--utc|--universal] [ MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss] ]
please break these down into:
printing the date:
da