From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 17 01:01:13 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 BFA0716A4DE for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 01:01:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from prvs=julian=377da0077@elischer.org) Received: from a50.ironport.com (a50.ironport.com [63.251.108.112]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80BCE43D49 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 01:01:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from prvs=julian=377da0077@elischer.org) Received: from unknown (HELO [10.251.18.229]) ([10.251.18.229]) by a50.ironport.com with ESMTP; 16 Aug 2006 18:01:13 -0700 Message-ID: <44E3BFD8.6040901@elischer.org> Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 18:01:12 -0700 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060414 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez References: <44DD4510.5070002@elischer.org> <20060816131824.67a8053b.algardo@sura.ru> <44E38F2C.8000207@elischer.org> <20060816213709.b53ded66.rnsanchez@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060816213709.b53ded66.rnsanchez@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: 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 01:01:13 -0000 Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez wrote: >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. > > I wouldn't call it huge pressure.. it was 2 for, (now 3), 3 against and about 200 who couldn't care. It's just that the ney sayers always scream loudest. BTW I chose 's' without any research.. Date only has the short getopt so '--' doesn't work, but there are lots of unsed letters.. a quick survey suggests maybe -p (pipe?) (suggestions welcome) my favourites of s and f are already used on one system or another.