From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 13 16:50:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.numachi.com (numachi.numachi.com [198.175.254.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C03C7150BD for ; Tue, 13 Jul 1999 16:50:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reichert@numachi.com) Received: (qmail 23680 invoked by uid 1001); 13 Jul 1999 23:50:21 -0000 Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 19:50:21 -0400 From: Brian Reichert To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: how standard is FreeBSD's 'date' utility? Message-ID: <19990713195021.F21280@numachi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG A silly question, hopefully an answer will manifest. FreeBSD's 'date' utility comes with a '-r' flag, which means (in effect) 'given a UNIX epoch timestamp, dump it out in a human-readable format'. A utility that I find very handy indeed. My question: how standard is this flag? Other (unamed) OSs don't seem to support it. The manpage doesn't state that this is a [Free]BSD-specific flag. So - what is it's derivation? How long has it been around? Do any other OSs provide it? Thanks for any input... -- Brian 'you Bastard' Reichert reichert@numachi.com 37 Crystal Ave. #303 Current daytime number: (603)-434-6842 Derry NH 03038-1713 USA Intel architecture: the left-hand path To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message