Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 09:24:02 -0600 From: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r345365 - head/bin/date Message-ID: <8cbcb45384bdf9af7f6ac0ba26121efa6a7b5669.camel@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <201903210647.x2L6lNb6045456@repo.freebsd.org> References: <201903210647.x2L6lNb6045456@repo.freebsd.org>
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On Thu, 2019-03-21 at 06:47 +0000, Warner Losh wrote: > Author: imp > Date: Thu Mar 21 06:47:23 2019 > New Revision: 345365 > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/345365 > > Log: > Remove -n flag, fix setting date / time > IMO, the -n flag should still be accepted, but ignored, to provide compatibility with anybody's old scripts or other automation that uses date -n, since the new default behavior is exactly what the old -n flag provided. On the other hand, the fact that date(1) has failed to set the date for about 3 months shows that it isn't a heavily-used command. -- Ian
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