Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 04:33:18 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: brian@awfulhak.org (Brian Somers), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: date(1) Message-ID: <199707290333.EAA20583@awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 29 Jul 1997 12:41:47 %2B0930." <199707290311.MAA09780@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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> Brian Somers stands accused of saying:
> > Yep. I think I'll fix the usage message too - shouldn't it be:
> >
> > [[yy[mm[dd[hh]]]]mm[.ss]]
>
> That'd be consistent with the manpage.
>
> > > - The ability to input and output the timestamp in decimal or hex
> > > localtime() format, ie. 0xXXXXXXXX or DDDDDDDDDD
> >
> > Do you mean to output the actual "number of seconds since the epoch",
> > as in the opposite of the -r option ?
>
> -r emits seconds since the epoch in decimal. At the very least, -r
> with a timevalue argument should set the time in seconds, preferably
> using strtoul so that it can handle decimal, hex and octal.
>
> Actually, -r is redundant, as +%s will do the same thing.
Not true. -r takes a ``seconds'' arg, and uses that instead of
calling time(). It's a non-setting input value.
I can get -r to use strtol(), but do we want to do things the other
way too ? Do we want to be able to output hex too (ie, a change to
strftime(3) - pity %x is gone...) ?
> On further thought, an alternative approach would be to use the new
> strptime() function and take a format string for scanning the time,
> much as it takes now for formatting the output.
This would allow us to change (say) the current month without touching
the time..... how new is "strptime" ? It ain't on my machine (supped
1.5 hours ago).
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