From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Jan 25 15:40:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from guppy.vub.ac.be (guppy.vub.ac.be [134.184.129.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8603837B41D for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 15:40:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from fort-knox.rave.org (igwe15.vub.ac.be [134.184.49.15]) by guppy.vub.ac.be (8.9.1b+Sun/3.17.1.ap (guppy)) id AAA18223; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 00:39:58 +0100 (MET) for Received: (qmail 6059 invoked by uid 1979); 25 Jan 2002 23:40:01 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 25 Jan 2002 23:40:01 -0000 Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 00:40:01 +0100 (CET) From: Wouter Van Hemel To: "Gary W. Swearingen" Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Should common/traditional Unix SA tasks be documented? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: PGP: 0B B4 BC 28 53 62 FE 94 6A 57 EE B8 A6 E2 1B E4 (0xAA5412F0) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 25 Jan 2002, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > In a recent -questions thread, a Linux refugee gave up trying to > determine how to set the clock. (There are two of them which may be > set, but I'll leave the issue related to that for a PR.) It's not > documented in the Handbook or FAQ, "make -k clock" is no help, and "make > -k time" gives 840 words in 80 lines that few will find "date" in. > > I'm wondering whether such things should be documented in the Handbook. > Several posters seemed to think that he was an idiot for not knowing > that "date" sets the clock, either because it's traditional Unix or it's > in Unix books or man pages. > > I seemed to me that an OS Handbook should be like the User's Manuals > which (used to?) come with OSes and other software. The man pages are > [...] I agree. I am using unix systems for 4 years now, and sometimes (less and less) I still 'find' commands I didn't know the existance of, or at least I kinda forgot about them. Lost month I discovered 'cal', for instance. Although it wasn't really the most shocking thing that ever happened to me, it surprised me a bit to still discover something I didn't know or remember was there. Besides... there really isn't mentioned anything about 'date' in the handbook? I'd say that _is_ a bit of a shortcoming... wouter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message