On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 02:09:29PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 12/15/21 12:39, Mike Marchywka wrote:
> > $echo 2000 | date +%Y -f-
> > 2021
>
> How about this instead? The idea is to avoid
> adding features if they can easily be
> implemented with some other standard utility.
> This way, you ca
On 12/15/21 14:24, Mike Marchywka wrote:
if date is
going to be a swiss army knife for date conversions
it makes some sense to allow user selection of
ambiguity resolution doesn't it?
There are thousands of possible data conversions and I'm not sure we
want to head down the road of trying to
On 12/15/21 12:39, Mike Marchywka wrote:
$echo 2000 | date +%Y -f-
2021
How about this instead? The idea is to avoid adding features if they can
easily be implemented with some other standard utility. This way, you
can write your shell scripts now rather than waiting for a future fix
(plus,
I'm trying to implement the options shown below. I downloaded the coreutils
source
for my distro and don't expect a problem compling and implementing it.
However, is there any interest in adding similar functions to the main code?
I would imagine something like,
date --option=four-digits-are-YY
