on March 31 won't take you to March 2 or 3 (now the result will
be the last day of February.)
In general, now stepping by months from the last days of the current
month A will take you to the very last day of the target month B if
B is shorter than A.
The previous version would just step to March 31 and rely on mktime(3)
to correct the date. Despite its simplicity, such way was counter-intuitive
to users and caused pain to shell script writers.
Noticed by: Igor Timkin <ivt at gamma dot ru>
Approved by: brian
MFC after: 2 weeks
back into epoch time. Everytime I'm asked to do this by someone I
have to spend about ten minutes recreating the same command line.
So record it under examples.
decoration. Further improvements are welcome, but at least this
is a separate of the various modes of operation date has, as well as
sectioning off the two deprecated options for settimeofday(tz) that
don't even apply to actual operation of date as such, anyway.
Avoid using parenthesis enclosure macros (.Pq and .Po/.Pc) with plain text.
Not only this slows down the mdoc(7) processing significantly, but it also
has an undesired (in this case) effect of disabling hyphenation within the
entire enclosed block.
in committers (Message-Id: <72836.964344168@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>).
Also cleaned up a .Pq macro which was causing problems previous
to the original update I made.
Reviewed by: sheldonh
Approved by: jkh
option already supported octal. Add a comment to the -r option
in the man page so it's a bit more specific.
Discrepancy brought to my attention by: sasdrq@unx.sas.com
Approved by: jkh
* remove hard sentence breaks
* use of Fl with Ar if argument available
* Dq -> Sq where better
* Ql -> Dq and Ql -> Fa where better
* include sections to Xr macro
* It Ar .ss -> It Ar ss
fixes (very important in this case). Version 1.40 should be discarded.
This version includes the language diffs. To receive them, use
cvs diff [-u] -r 1.39 -r 1.41
usage of .Xr and removal of hard sentence breaks).
PR: 18880
Submitted by: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@unix-ag.uni-kl.de>
Obtained from: OpenBSD (in parts)
date is launched with the "u" argument. It now operates in the documented
manner.
Fix typo in date man page.
Submitted by: David McNett <nugget@slacker.com>
add a -j flag that tells date not to try to set the date. This allows you
to use date as a userland interface to strptime.
example:
TZ=GMT date -j -f "%a, %d %b %Y %T %Z" "Sun, 08 Nov 1998 02:22:20 GMT" +%s
which is the standard format for Last-modified headers in HTTP requests.
only one to respond: eivind
