Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 12:20:03 -0800 (PST) From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/17250: Unclear language on date(1) manpage for -r option Message-ID: <200003072020.MAA74882@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/17250; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/17250: Unclear language on date(1) manpage for -r option Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 22:13:33 +0200 On Tue, 07 Mar 2000 14:58:34 EST, "Crist J. Clark" wrote: > -r Print out the date and time in seconds from the Epoch. > > Which to me sounds like it is going to return the time in that > form. You're right, our manual page is confusing. I prefer what the NetBSD manual page has to what you propose in your patch: .It Fl r Print out the date and time that is .Ar seconds from the Epoch. Would you be happy with that? Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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