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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 21:01:33 +0100
From: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org>
To: parish <stonewall@btinternet.com>
Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/18792: date man page has misleading description of -r option
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parish wrote:

>  How about:
> =20
>  	-r print out the date and time represented by _seconds_, which is
>  	   the number of seconds since the Epoch (00:00:00 UTC, January 1,
>  	   1970; see time(3))
> =20
>  or
> =20
>  	-r print _seconds_ as a date and time, where _seconds_ is the number of
>  	   seconds since the Epoch (00:00:00 UTC, January 1, 1970; see
>  time(3)).

Hmm, neither seem quite right, but if we combine them:

  -r	Print the date and time represented by _seconds_, where _seconds_ is
	the number of seconds since the Epoch (...)

Looks good to me.

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