Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 05:00:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/14472: date for Y#K Message-ID: <199910251200.FAA94092@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/14472; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: j_guojun@lbl.gov Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/14472: date for Y#K Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 13:50:12 +0200 On Mon, 25 Oct 1999 13:28:07 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > The following patch should give you what you want. Note that you can > only specify 4-digit years within the range 1902-2037. I sent you a diff for the source, but not for the manpage. The diff for the latter follows. Ciao, Sheldon. Index: date.1 =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/bin/date/date.1,v retrieving revision 1.31 diff -u -d -r1.31 date.1 --- date.1 1999/08/27 23:13:58 1.31 +++ date.1 1999/10/25 11:49:14 @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ .Op Fl t Ar minutes_west .Op Fl v Ns Ar [+|-]val Ns Op ymwdHMS .Ar ... -.Op Fl f Ar fmt Ar date | [[[[yy]mm]dd]HH]MM[\&.ss] +.Op Fl f Ar fmt Ar date | [[[[[cc]yy]mm]dd]HH]MM[\&.ss] .Op Cm + Ns Ar format .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nm Date @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ .Ar fmt as the format string to parse the date provided rather than using the default -.Ar [[[[yy]mm]dd]HH]MM[.ss] +.Ar [[[[[cc]yy]mm]dd]HH]MM[.ss] format. Parsing is done using .Xr strptime 3 . .It Fl j @@ -168,6 +168,8 @@ The canonical representation for setting the date and time is: .Pp .Bl -tag -width Ds -compact -offset indent +.It Ar cc +Century (either 19 or 20) prepended to the abbreviated year. .It Ar yy Year in abbreviated form (e.g. 89 for 1989, 06 for 2006). .It Ar mm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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