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Date:      Thu, 08 Apr 2021 21:05:56 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 254894] find(1): meaning of -newerXt (-newerXY with Y=t) is behind layers of indirection, not installed
Message-ID:  <bug-254894-227@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>

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            Bug ID: 254894
           Summary: find(1): meaning of -newerXt (-newerXY with Y=3Dt) is
                    behind layers of indirection, not installed
           Product: Documentation
           Version: Latest
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Only Me
          Priority: ---
         Component: Manual Pages
          Assignee: bugs@FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: danielsh@apache.org
                CC: doc@FreeBSD.org

Quoting find(1):

https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/usr.bin/find/find.1?revision=3D360074&=
view=3Dmarkup#l644
> In addition, if
> .Ar Y Ns =3D Ns Cm t ,
> then
> .Ar file
> is instead interpreted as a direct date specification of the form
> understood by
> .Xr cvs 1 .

Now, I didn't even have cvs(1) installed, but opening
https://man.freebsd.org/cvs and going to the third match for "date" told me
that "1 hour ago" was one valid syntax, and beyond that, said just:

> For a complete description of the date formats accepted by cvs, see node
> `Date input formats' in the CVS manual.

I followed the link at the bottom of the manpage to the CVS homepage.

I followed the link in the top nav bar to "Documentation".

I followed the link to the manual.

I followed the link to the "HTML - with one web page per node" version of t=
he
manual.

There wasn't a table of contents entry called "Date input formats", nor suc=
h an
entry in the index.

I went through the matches for "date" in the table of contents, and tried
<https://www.gnu.org/software/trans-coord/manual/cvs/html_node/Tagging-by-d=
ate_002ftag.html#Tagging-by-date_002ftag>.

I followed the link to "Common options",
https://www.gnu.org/software/trans-coord/manual/cvs/html_node/Common-option=
s.html#Common-options.

That finally told me that the supported input formats are ISO8601 and RFC82=
2.

Could that information please be placed behind fewer layers of indirection?=
=20
Ideally, in the find(1) man page itself?

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