Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 15:44:50 -0400 From: "Ogren, Eric C." <ecogren@rsasecurity.com> To: "'parish'" <stonewall@btinternet.com>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: docs/18792: date man page has misleading description of -r op tion Message-ID: <F504A8CEE925D411AF4A00508B8BE90A1BF698@exna07.securitydynamics.com>
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Hmm...how bout a compromise? -r print out the date and time represented by _seconds_, where _seconds_ is the number of seconds since the Epoch (00:00:00 UTC, January 1, 1970; see time(3)). Eric > -----Original Message----- > From: parish [mailto:stonewall@btinternet.com] > Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 3:20 PM > To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: docs/18792: date man page has misleading > description of -r > option > > > The following reply was made to PR docs/18792; it has been > noted by GNATS. > > From: parish <stonewall@btinternet.com> > To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org > Cc: > Subject: Re: docs/18792: date man page has misleading > description of -r option > Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 20:10:47 +0100 > > How about: > > -r print out the date and time represented by > _seconds_, which is > the number of seconds since the Epoch (00:00:00 UTC, > January 1, > 1970; see time(3)) > > or > > -r print _seconds_ as a date and time, where _seconds_ > is the number of > seconds since the Epoch (00:00:00 UTC, January 1, 1970; see > time(3)). > > -- > If I buy a copy of WinDelete, and it doesn't delete Windows, > am I entitled to my money back? > ________________________________________________________________ > FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org > My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ > mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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