From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Jul 12 8:34:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7E6537C2A2 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 08:34:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.15 #1) id 13CNYC-000Pwe-00; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 15:31:48 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.15 #1) id 13CNYC-000Dsk-00; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 15:31:48 +0100 Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 15:31:48 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Mike Pritchard 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> References: <200007120510.WAA54599@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000712053407.A24399@mppsystems.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="v0AS7uCPPFvPHUfF" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000712053407.A24399@mppsystems.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --v0AS7uCPPFvPHUfF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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.. --=20 Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D --v0AS7uCPPFvPHUfF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: RyRl5S4CfwEfeGZe+zPL6H07QWi7yE0x iQCVAwUBOWyBUysPVtiZOS99AQGnTQP+N4b8JmKDBWiTx198vXBRpLoiUHBPjYIU hNGCwrs1Ccqt2i3N0GzrTfz0X5/RfwXe9DVsMrS0s/s3nE7QJ89io1/MxbpFm0dl V7p55JJH3N60QLvHgzJ5U5Dr7eQ/1qPFD51Z8eCwNKK4+FJVbdcXg0b7CaMoJaXw nPQYpIbW4ls= =1qV7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --v0AS7uCPPFvPHUfF-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message