interpreted as a number, which checks the file's modification time and
use that as the date/time value.
This improves compatibility with GNU coreutils's version of time(1).
MFC after: 2 weeks
As stated in the man page, this is equivalent to use "%a, %d %b %Y %T %z"
as the output format while LC_TIME is set to the "C" locale.
This is compatible with date(1) from the GNU core utilities.
usually be set first when using -v.
Adjust an example that sets the day to 30 before setting the month to 3 in
accordance with this approach as the example would always fail in February!
PR: 147354
MFC after: 2 weeks
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>
