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Date:      Tue, 29 Jul 1997 03:57:05 +0100
From:      Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
To:        Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
Cc:        brian@awfulhak.org (Brian Somers), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: date(1) 
Message-ID:  <199707290257.DAA18266@awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 29 Jul 1997 11:40:27 %2B0930." <199707290210.LAA09434@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> 

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> Brian Somers stands accused of saying:
> > 
> > I'd like to add the following functionality to date(1) in -current,
[.....]
> Please also add :
> 
>  - The ability to parse timestamps in ctime()-like format.

Yep.  I think I'll fix the usage message too - shouldn't it be:

  [[yy[mm[dd[hh]]]]mm[.ss]]

I must say, this format beats the mmddhhmmyy format in SYSV !

>  - The ability to input and output the timestamp in decimal or hex
>    localtime() format, ie. 0xXXXXXXXX or DDDDDDDDDD

Do you mean to output the actual "number of seconds since the epoch", 
as in the opposite of the -r option ?

> > Brian <brian@awfulhak.org>, <brian@freebsd.org>
> 
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