From owner-freebsd-hackers  Mon Jul 28 20:27:15 1997
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-hackers>
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA02037
          for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 20:27:15 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133])
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA02007;
          Mon, 28 Jul 1997 20:26:49 -0700 (PDT)
Received: (grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.6/8.6.12) 
       id MAA01445; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 12:56:38 +0930 (CST)
From: grog@FreeBSD.ORG
Message-Id: <199707290326.MAA01445@freebie.lemis.com>
Subject: Re: date(1)
In-Reply-To: <199707290257.DAA18266@awfulhak.org> from Brian Somers at "Jul 29, 97 03:57:05 am"
To: brian@awfulhak.org (Brian Somers)
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 12:56:38 +0930 (CST)
Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, brian@awfulhak.org,
        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Organisation:   LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia
Phone:          +61-8-8388-8250
Fax:            +61-8-8388-8250
Mobile:         +61-41-739-7062
WWW-Home-Page:  http://www.lemis.com/~grog
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)]
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk

Brian Somers writes:
> > Brian Somers stands accused of saying:
> > > 
> > > I'd like to add the following functionality to date(1) in -current,
> [.....]
> > Please also add :
> > 
> >  - The ability to parse timestamps in ctime()-like format.
> 
> Yep.  I think I'll fix the usage message too - shouldn't it be:
> 
>   [[yy[mm[dd[hh]]]]mm[.ss]]
> 
> I must say, this format beats the mmddhhmmyy format in SYSV !

Sure, it beats it, but it also includes a gratuitous incompatibility.
I vote to leave it as it is.

Greg