James Youngman wrote:
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net wrote:
Pádraig Brady wrote:
OK how about I put the last 3 or 4 examples from
http://www.pixelbeat.org/cmdline.html#dates
in an EXAMPLE section in the man page.
Good examples.
I like the idea.
One tweak:
Jim Meyering wrote:
James Youngman wrote:
One tweak: use date -d 12:00 +1 day instead of date -d tomorrow in
the example.
Good idea. That makes it immune to failure in a one hour interval
on the day before the spring DST transition.
hmm, shouldn't the tomorrow handling be fixed then?
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Voelker, Bernhard wrote:
Jim Meyering wrote:
James Youngman wrote:
One tweak: use date -d 12:00 +1 day instead of date -d tomorrow in
the example.
Good idea. That makes it immune to failure in a one hour interval
on the day before the spring DST transition.
hmm, shouldn't the tomorrow
Jim Meyering wrote:
Voelker, Bernhard wrote:
Jim Meyering wrote:
James Youngman wrote:
One tweak: use date -d 12:00 +1 day instead of date -d tomorrow in
the example.
Good idea. That makes it immune to failure in a one hour interval
on the day before the spring DST transition.
hmm,
On 06/03/11 01:52, Voelker, Bernhard wrote:
It seems there's room for improvement.
Absolutely. All that we need is someone to volunteer to
specify exactly how to improve it, and to write the
documentation and code. Unfortunately, this won't be
trivial.
Voelker, Bernhard wrote:
Jim Meyering wrote:
Voelker, Bernhard wrote:
Jim Meyering wrote:
James Youngman wrote:
One tweak: use date -d 12:00 +1 day instead of date -d tomorrow in
the example.
Good idea. That makes it immune to failure in a one hour interval
on the day before the spring
Jim Meyering wrote:
Voelker, Bernhard wrote:
Jim Meyering wrote:
Voelker, Bernhard wrote:
Jim Meyering wrote:
James Youngman wrote:
One tweak: use date -d 12:00 +1 day instead of date -d tomorrow in
the example.
Good idea. That makes it immune to failure in a one hour interval
on the
Voelker, Bernhard wrote:
...
We can't change the fact that the spring DST transition
introduces a one-hour hole containing invalid times.
Whenever we tell date to use a time in such a hole,
date must diagnose it as invalid.
`date` is still a tool, so I feel it should reflect daily life
...
Jim Meyering wrote:
Voelker, Bernhard wrote:
...
We can't change the fact that the spring DST transition
introduces a one-hour hole containing invalid times.
Whenever we tell date to use a time in such a hole,
date must diagnose it as invalid.
`date` is still a tool, so I feel it should
On Friday 03 June 2011, Voelker, Bernhard wrote:
so in the night where the DST transition takes place, imagine you get
up to go to the toilet because you drank to much coffee the evening
before ... right in the hour where DST transition happens:
isn't there a `date`?
Or the other way round:
On 02/06/11 00:39, Jesse Gordon wrote:
On 6/1/2011 4:12 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
On 01/06/11 18:11, Rick Stanley wrote:
The date command is very useful. A lot of features and options which I
take advantage of as I need them. Every once in a while I need to use
the command to convert a
Pádraig Brady wrote:
...
Jumpin' whale gills!
Well when you put it like that :)
Heh ;-) I had the same reaction.
I wish I'd known about the -d @ function! I ended
up writing my own in Perl utility just to convert epochs to dates.
I'm with Rick on this one. Date supports so many different
I'm going with these 3.
It's a bit tricky to align --help and man output,
but this isn't too bad I think.
cheers,
Pádraig.
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Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 13:00:18 +0100
Pádraig Brady wrote:
I'm going with these 3.
It's a bit tricky to align --help and man output,
but this isn't too bad I think.
Thanks.
Subject: [PATCH] doc: add examples to date --help
* src/date.c (usage): Add examples for TZ handling,
and seconds since epoch parsing, neither of which
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net wrote:
Pádraig Brady wrote:
OK how about I put the last 3 or 4 examples from
http://www.pixelbeat.org/cmdline.html#dates
in an EXAMPLE section in the man page.
Good examples.
I like the idea.
One tweak: use date -d 12:00 +1
The date command is very useful. A lot of features and options which I
take advantage of as I need them. Every once in a while I need to use
the command to convert a UNIX Epoch Date to a normal date, so I attempt
to use the command as:
date -d 1306947372
Which results in the error message,
On 01/06/11 18:11, Rick Stanley wrote:
The date command is very useful. A lot of features and options which I
take advantage of as I need them. Every once in a while I need to use
the command to convert a UNIX Epoch Date to a normal date, so I attempt
to use the command as:
date -d
Rick Stanley wrote:
date -d 1306947372
Which results in the error message, date: invalid date `1306947372'.
Neither 'date --help' or 'man date' shows that the command should have
been written as:
date -d @1306947372
I needed to do a Google search to see what I was doing wrong. (My
On 6/1/2011 4:12 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
On 01/06/11 18:11, Rick Stanley wrote:
The date command is very useful. A lot of features and options which I
take advantage of as I need them. Every once in a while I need to use
the command to convert a UNIX Epoch Date to a normal date, so I
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