From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 5 18:28:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B32537B419 for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 18:28:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from user-38lc2j1.dialup.mindspring.com ([209.86.10.97] helo=gohan.cjclark.org) by falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16N32Y-0006KK-00; Sat, 05 Jan 2002 18:28:03 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by gohan.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.1) id g060tGQ09382; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 16:55:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 16:55:16 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: "J.S." Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Changes in the FreeBSD date-format Message-ID: <20020105165516.F204@gohan.cjclark.org> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <20020105170416.6c112815.johann@broadpark.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020105170416.6c112815.johann@broadpark.no>; from johann@broadpark.no on Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 05:04:16PM +0100 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 05:04:16PM +0100, J.S. wrote: > Is there any particular reason as to why the date-format in FreeBSD > appears slightly altered from time to time? > > Some times it's and some times, if I recall > correctly, it's . > > I'm a perfectionist, and that extra and unnecessary space is freaking me out. The first is correct. All standards compliant (POSIX.2) systems will print it that way. The "extra" space is there so the date string is always the same length, [1001:~] date Sat Jan 5 16:53:47 PST 2002 [1002:~] date -v+5d Thu Jan 10 16:53:54 PST 2002 ^ note they end on the same column. -- "It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's hilarious." Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message