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From: Martin Kammerhofer <dada@sbox.tu-graz.ac.at>
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Subject: docs/4704: wrong synopsis in date(1) manpage and usage() routine
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>Number:         4704
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       wrong synopsis in date(1) manpage and usage() routine
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Oct  5 23:20:01 PDT 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Martin Kammerhofer
>Organization:
Graz University of Technology
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE i386
>Environment:
>Description:
'man 1 date' specifies synopsis as:
     date [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t minutes_west] [-nu] [+format]
          [[yy[mm[dd[hh]]]]mm[.ss]]

This is nonsense. Correct is:
     date [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t minutes_west] [-nu] [+format]
          [[[[[yy]mm]dd]hh]mm[.ss]]

In other words: If you give a date-spec. with exactly 4 digits it is
  interpreted as hhmm and not as yymm!
The program parses correct, the manpage and usage string (at end of date.c)
are wrong.

>How-To-Repeat:
	man date | head
	date 123

>Fix:
Get the brackets right!

>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: