Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 08:12:25 -0700 (PDT) From: bobj@atlantic.net To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/18792: date man page has misleading description of -r option Message-ID: <20000524151225.EC12537BC74@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 18792 >Category: docs >Synopsis: date man page has misleading description of -r option >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Wed May 24 08:20:00 PDT 2000 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Bob Johnson >Release: 3.4-STABLE FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE #2: Mon Mar 27 >Organization: >Environment: >Description: "man date" says -r Print out the date and time in seconds from the Epoch. which isn't really accurate. It prints the time that is a user-specified number of seconds from the Epoch. >How-To-Repeat: man date Note that synopsis specifies _seconds_ argument to the -r option. >Fix: Change it to say -r Print out the date and time that is _seconds_ seconds from the Epoch. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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