Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 18:01:12 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez <rnsanchez@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: suggested addition to 'date' Message-ID: <44E3BFD8.6040901@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <20060816213709.b53ded66.rnsanchez@gmail.com> References: <44DD4510.5070002@elischer.org> <20060816131824.67a8053b.algardo@sura.ru> <44E38F2C.8000207@elischer.org> <20060816213709.b53ded66.rnsanchez@gmail.com>
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Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez wrote: >Hello, > >On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 14:33:32 -0700, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> >wrote: > > > >>I will simply put the unhancement in out own cvs tree, and the >>enhancement will be private. >>I'm still comletely amazed that no-one but me thinks this is a good idea >>as it seems absolutly >>obvious to me and it doesn't affect date's usual behaviour in the >>slightest. >> >> > >I think it's useful, even if there are many other ways to do it, including >scripts, ports and other tools that may (or may not) triple the effort to >get something done just because of purist reasons. > >My suggestion, if you happen to reconsider about having it only for your >local usage, is to instead use a long option, like "--stamp" or >"--timestamp". -s collides with GNU date set option, and people sometimes >forget if they're in a BSD or GNU box (I do). > >I'd have sent this mail before, but I got shaky as I'm new here and because >of the huge pressure for not committing such addition. > > I wouldn't call it huge pressure.. it was 2 for, (now 3), 3 against and about 200 who couldn't care. It's just that the ney sayers always scream loudest. BTW I chose 's' without any research.. Date only has the short getopt so '--' doesn't work, but there are lots of unsed letters.. a quick survey suggests maybe -p (pipe?) (suggestions welcome) my favourites of s and f are already used on one system or another.
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