From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 5 22:43:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC25837B400 for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:43:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=tanya.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16N71m-0009xG-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 06 Jan 2002 06:43:31 +0000 Received: by tanya.raggedclown.net (Postfix on SuSE Linux 7.3 (i386), from userid 500) id D9B74117A; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 07:43:29 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 07:43:29 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Changes in the FreeBSD date-format Message-ID: <20020106064329.GC1003@raggedclown.net> References: <20020105170416.6c112815.johann@broadpark.no> <20020105165516.F204@gohan.cjclark.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020105165516.F204@gohan.cjclark.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i 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 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 and some times, if I recall > > correctly, it's . > > > > 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