From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Mar 4 11: 0: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5334F37B718 for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 11:00:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f24J03W39555; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 11:00:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 11:00:03 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200103041900.f24J03W39555@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: alex@big.endian.de (Alexander Langer) Subject: Re: bin/25526: Possible inclusion into the base system: mktime(1) Reply-To: alex@big.endian.de (Alexander Langer) Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR bin/25526; it has been noted by GNATS. From: alex@big.endian.de (Alexander Langer) To: sluggo@unknown.nu Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/25526: Possible inclusion into the base system: mktime(1) Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 19:58:49 +0100 Thus spake sluggo@unknown.nu (sluggo@unknown.nu): > I've never seen anything before that I thought should be included in the base system, but this is a pretty handy, small utility that I think fills a very common need: mktime(1). It performs simple arithmetic on the date similar to mktime(3), crucial for all kinds of scheduled tasks. It's public domain. It lives at . this can be done with date(1)'s -v option, you know? Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message