From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 17 00:25:51 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3123116A4DD for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 00:25:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd-current@mawer.org) Received: from mail-ihug.icp-qv1-irony3.iinet.net.au (ihug-mail.icp-qv1-irony3.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.197]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E3C143D45 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 00:25:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fbsd-current@mawer.org) Received: from 203-206-173-235.perm.iinet.net.au (HELO [127.0.0.1]) ([203.206.173.235]) by mail-ihug.icp-qv1-irony3.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 17 Aug 2006 08:25:47 +0800 X-BrightmailFiltered: true X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-IronPort-AV: i="4.08,134,1154880000"; d="scan'208"; a="904137799:sNHT17455972" Message-ID: <44E3B77E.1080509@mawer.org> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:25:34 +1000 From: Antony Mawer User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Julian Elischer References: <44DD4510.5070002@elischer.org> <20060816131824.67a8053b.algardo@sura.ru> <44E38F2C.8000207@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <44E38F2C.8000207@elischer.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Aleksey Perov , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: suggested addition to 'date' X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 00:25:51 -0000 On 17/08/2006 7:33 AM, Julian Elischer wrote: > Aleksey Perov wrote: >> This wheel has been invented million years ago. >> >> Install DJB's daemontools from ports, then run >> ... > I can not install ports onto these machines. They are appliances. > > I will simply put the unhancement in out own cvs tree, and the > enhancement will be private. > I'm still comletely amazed that no-one but me thinks this is a good idea > as it seems absolutly > obvious to me and it doesn't affect date's usual behaviour in the > slightest. I'd also find this handy, as have many a time resorted to a Perl script to achieve the same thing. It does seem an odd fit to the "date" command (date's job isn't really anything to do with logging), but there is merit in the fact that it avoids having to re-duplicate all the date parsing and formatting code that already exists within date in another program... I sympathise with the situation re: appliances, and the fewer programs you can get away with in such a situation, the better! -Antony