From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 17 00:38:54 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 63B4316A4E6 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 00:38:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rnsanchez@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.235]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEF0343D45 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 00:38:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rnsanchez@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i27so302627wxd for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 17:38:53 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=aipi/5cyQsBOu4/nd7T+B3zQnYyQYPLYvfKLkkdRp8fGjxI2eQu1tNPBtutB3Y383qAVAE8tgkUeL0o6D4vXYJ+0AZznciwt5iEj7U4sosqIUW/S3HQePSbrFXu9yAHAOZLfQpdiw3BXxhjN0+I3H95F8C5Lml4iL3DMhMQqo9I= Received: by 10.70.32.10 with SMTP id f10mr1824431wxf; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 17:37:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sauron.lan.box ( [200.180.186.78]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 8sm1141751wrl.2006.08.16.17.37.11; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 17:37:13 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 21:37:09 -0300 From: Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20060816213709.b53ded66.rnsanchez@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <44E38F2C.8000207@elischer.org> References: <44DD4510.5070002@elischer.org> <20060816131824.67a8053b.algardo@sura.ru> <44E38F2C.8000207@elischer.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Julian Elischer 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 00:38:54 -0000 Hello, On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 14:33:32 -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > 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 think it's useful, even if there are many other ways to do it, including scripts, ports and other tools that may (or may not) triple the effort to get something done just because of purist reasons. My suggestion, if you happen to reconsider about having it only for your local usage, is to instead use a long option, like "--stamp" or "--timestamp". -s collides with GNU date set option, and people sometimes forget if they're in a BSD or GNU box (I do). I'd have sent this mail before, but I got shaky as I'm new here and because of the huge pressure for not committing such addition. -- Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez Powered by FreeBSD "Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse."