Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 07:43:29 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Changes in the FreeBSD date-format Message-ID: <20020106064329.GC1003@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <20020105165516.F204@gohan.cjclark.org> References: <20020105170416.6c112815.johann@broadpark.no> <20020105165516.F204@gohan.cjclark.org>
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On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 04:55:16PM -0800, Crist J. Clark wrote: > 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 <Sat Jan 5 17:01:30 CET 2002> and some times, if I recall > > correctly, it's <Sat Jan 5 17:01:30 CET 2002>. > > > > I'm a perfectionist, and that extra and unnecessary space is freaking me out. > Well, I am afraid your definition of perfection seems to be what *you* want it to do :) That first form is the correct standard form and has been since the dawn of Unix time. It maintains a constant length date string. That is perfection for other people :) You will never have seen the second form from normal output of date. Something else must have happened if you did. -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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