From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 29 01:54:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA25670 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 01:54:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from minor.stranger.com (stranger.vip.best.com [204.156.129.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA25652 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 01:54:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dog.farm.org (dog.farm.org [207.111.140.47]) by minor.stranger.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id BAA00681; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 01:54:31 -0700 Received: (from dk@localhost) by dog.farm.org (8.7.5/dk#3) id BAA13807; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 01:52:00 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 01:52:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Dmitry Kohmanyuk Message-Id: <199707290852.BAA13807@dog.farm.org> To: brian@awfulhak.org (Brian Somers) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: date(1) Newsgroups: cs-monolit.gated.lists.freebsd.hackers Organization: FARM Computing Association Reply-To: dk+@ua.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article <199707290356.EAA22036@awfulhak.org> you wrote: > > > Yep. I think I'll fix the usage message too - shouldn't it be: > > > > > > [[yy[mm[dd[hh]]]]mm[.ss]] It should become [[[cc]yy[mm[dd[hh]]]]mm[.ss]] or we are screwed in 866 days from now. > > > I must say, this format beats the mmddhhmmyy format in SYSV ! /usr/bin/date [-u] [[mmdd]HHMM | mmddHHMM[cc]yy][.SS] (quote from Solaris 2.5.1 manpage) -- I have BSD, but SYSV has me. -- heared from Igor Uwkin (uwka@big.Sun.nsk.SU)