From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 28 20:59:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA04855 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 20:59:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from awfulhak.demon.co.uk (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA04835; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 20:59:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from awfulhak.org (dev.lan.awfulhak.org [10.0.1.5]) by awfulhak.demon.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA19387; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 04:56:52 +0100 (BST) Received: from dev.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id EAA22036; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 04:56:52 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <199707290356.EAA22036@awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: grog@FreeBSD.ORG cc: brian@awfulhak.org (Brian Somers), msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: date(1) In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 29 Jul 1997 12:56:38 +0930." <199707290326.MAA01445@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 04:56:51 +0100 From: Brian Somers 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. I would intend to allow both. I don't want to break anything. > Greg -- Brian , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....