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
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>
from the source attributed below. In particular, this removes a goto
inside a switch and replaces those horrendous ATOI macros with
something acceptable.
More clean-ups to come.
PR: bin/14151
Reported by: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>
Obtained from: NetBSD
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
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
Fix several bugs involving the obsolescent -d and -t options:
-d 0 and -t 0 were ignored
-t -600 was a usage error
-d 'atoi is not suitable for parsing args' and -t duh were not usage errors
Change some error messages to say which call to settimeofday failed.
Restore casts of NULL in function calls.
Finish conversion to using err() instead of perror().
