From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Mar 7 12:20: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F3BA37C2CE for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 12:20:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id MAA74882; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 12:20:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 12:20:03 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200003072020.MAA74882@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Cc: From: Sheldon Hearn Subject: Re: docs/17250: Unclear language on date(1) manpage for -r option Reply-To: Sheldon Hearn Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR docs/17250; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Sheldon Hearn 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