Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 03:57:05 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: brian@awfulhak.org (Brian Somers), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: date(1) Message-ID: <199707290257.DAA18266@awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 29 Jul 1997 11:40:27 %2B0930." <199707290210.LAA09434@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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> Brian Somers stands accused of saying:
> >
> > I'd like to add the following functionality to date(1) in -current,
[.....]
> Please also add :
>
> - The ability to parse timestamps in ctime()-like format.
Yep. I think I'll fix the usage message too - shouldn't it be:
[[yy[mm[dd[hh]]]]mm[.ss]]
I must say, this format beats the mmddhhmmyy format in SYSV !
> - The ability to input and output the timestamp in decimal or hex
> localtime() format, ie. 0xXXXXXXXX or DDDDDDDDDD
Do you mean to output the actual "number of seconds since the epoch",
as in the opposite of the -r option ?
> > Brian <brian@awfulhak.org>, <brian@freebsd.org>
>
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