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To: Brian Somers <brian@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/date vary.c vary.h Makefile date.1 date.c 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 03 Aug 1997 20:37:08 PDT."
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From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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> brian       1997/08/03 20:37:08 PDT
> 
>   Modified files:
>     bin/date             Makefile date.1 date.c 
>   Added files:
>     bin/date             vary.c vary.h 
>   Log:
>   Add [-DWMY] flags for date adjustment.
>   Discussed with: freebsd-hackers
>   
>   Revision  Changes    Path
>   1.5       +2 -2      src/bin/date/Makefile
>   1.13      +58 -2     src/bin/date/date.1
>   1.14      +24 -4     src/bin/date/date.c
> 

On second thoughts, perhaps this is the wrong way to go about things. 
There's no way to adjust the hour/min/sec here, and no flags left to 
allow it.

What about if I change it to the following:

  [ -v [+|-]val[y|m|d|H|M|S] ]

The character after ``val'' is compulsory only if ``val'' is a 
numeric.  Usage is otherwise pretty much the same.

Comments ?
-- 
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