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Date:      Wed, 12 Jul 2000 15:31:48 +0100
From:      Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mike Pritchard <mpp@mppsystems.com>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: docs/18792: date man page has misleading description of -r option
Message-ID:  <20000712153148.H11000@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20000712053407.A24399@mppsystems.com>
References:  <200007120510.WAA54599@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000712053407.A24399@mppsystems.com>

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Mike Pritchard wrote:

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

On second thoughts, I think "date and time from the Epoch" is wrong,
since to me it implies a relative time, which you don't get (this is
what the whole PR is about -- the text originally said "print the time
in seconds from the Epoch" which is wrong).

I think I'll give up on this PR for now..

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