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Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 05:34:07 -0500
From: Mike Pritchard <mpp@mppsystems.com>
To: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: docs/18792: date man page has misleading description of -r option
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On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 10:10:02PM -0700, Ben Smithurst wrote:
>  Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote:
>  
>  > Print the date and time, specified by x _seconds_ from the Epoch?
>  
>  Hmm, I don't like the "x".  This manpage was changed relatively recently
>  anyway to be less confusing:

How about:

Print the date and time from the Epoch, as specified by the
_seconds_ argument.

-Mike
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