Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 20:28:05 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> To: dk+@ua.net Cc: brian@awfulhak.org (Brian Somers), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: date(1) Message-ID: <199707291928.UAA20404@awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 29 Jul 1997 01:52:00 PDT." <199707290852.BAA13807@dog.farm.org>
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> In article <199707290356.EAA22036@awfulhak.org> you wrote:
> > > > Yep. I think I'll fix the usage message too - shouldn't it be:
> > > >
> > > > [[yy[mm[dd[hh]]]]mm[.ss]]
>
> It should become
>
> [[[cc]yy[mm[dd[hh]]]]mm[.ss]]
>
> or we are screwed in 866 days from now.
>
> > > > I must say, this format beats the mmddhhmmyy format in SYSV !
>
> /usr/bin/date [-u] [[mmdd]HHMM | mmddHHMM[cc]yy][.SS]
>
> (quote from Solaris 2.5.1 manpage)
Hmm, this says that the following are ok (the [mmdd] bit is
extraneous too):
date HHMM
date mmddHHMM
date mmddHHMMyy
date mmddHHMMccyy
date .SS
date HHMM.SS
date mmddHHMM.SS
date mmddHHMMyy.SS
date mmddHHMMccyy.SS
If this usage message reflects the behaviour of date(1) on Solaris,
I'd be surprised :-I
> --
> I have BSD, but SYSV has me.
> -- heared from Igor Uwkin (uwka@big.Sun.nsk.SU)
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org>, <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.org>;
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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