From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Jul 14 10: 1:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (mta02-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEACF37C6BE; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 10:01:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from parish.my.domain ([62.253.88.87]) by mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20000714180022.PTWN3760.mta02-svc.ntlworld.com@parish.my.domain>; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 18:00:22 +0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA01699; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 18:00:57 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 18:00:57 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Ben Smithurst Cc: "Ogren, Eric C." , freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/18792: date man page has misleading description of -r op tion Message-ID: <20000714180057.A237@parish> References: <20000713215447.H237@parish> <20000714145025.T48641@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000714145025.T48641@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>; from ben@freebsd.org on Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 02:50:25PM +0100 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 02:50:25PM +0100, Ben Smithurst wrote: > Mark Ovens wrote: > > > [Trimmed stonewall@btinternet.com from the Cc:. It was me using Netscape :(] > > > > On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 03:44:50PM -0400, Ogren, Eric C. wrote: > >> 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)). > > > > I reckon that's the one. Anyone disagree? > > No, looks fine to me. I came up with almost identical wording in > another message I think, about the same time as Eric. (I wouldn't > include the word "out" since it seems unnecessary, but I'm really not > bothered much either way.) > > Very few people have got involved with this discussion, so I'd say it's > safe to commit since no-one really is bothered that much... > OK, except that alex has just committed docs/18880 (merging the OpenBSD date.1 changes, not that it should matter). I'll do it over the weekend sometime (I'm going to build the world tonight). > -- > Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D > FreeBSD Documentation Project / -- 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