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Date:      Thu, 21 Mar 2019 09:24:02 -0600
From:      Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r345365 - head/bin/date
Message-ID:  <8cbcb45384bdf9af7f6ac0ba26121efa6a7b5669.camel@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <201903210647.x2L6lNb6045456@repo.freebsd.org>
References:  <201903210647.x2L6lNb6045456@repo.freebsd.org>

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On Thu, 2019-03-21 at 06:47 +0000, Warner Losh wrote:
> Author: imp
> Date: Thu Mar 21 06:47:23 2019
> New Revision: 345365
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/345365
> 
> Log:
>   Remove -n flag, fix setting date / time
>   

IMO, the -n flag should still be accepted, but ignored, to provide
compatibility with anybody's old scripts or other automation that uses
date -n, since the new default behavior is exactly what the old -n flag
provided.

On the other hand, the fact that date(1) has failed to set the date for
about 3 months shows that it isn't a heavily-used command.

-- Ian




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