On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:11:39AM +0100, you wrote:
Natural for US citizens. Not so natural for others.
It's not natural for anyone. It's kinda-sorta, then doesn't do what you expect.
If locale based input parsing is doomed then the next logical solution is using a common format, and ISO 8601 is fine in this case, but then it should also be documented well! The manpage only talks about possible *output* formats ( and only mentions --rfc-2822 and --rfc-3339 there). From user's perspective, even one single *complete* example of date and time setting somewhere on top of the manpage or in the --help output would help a lot, but there is nothing. Just a short reference to some "STRING".
Because, as I said, it isn't "a string". It's designed to take things like "last thursday" or "fortnight tuesday". The info docs hint at the complexity necessary for the documentation.
Which manpage? date(1) on my system says: date [-u|--utc|--universal] [MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss]] So it looks like it should accept "-s 02112332" (for February 11th, 23:12). But it doesn't!
Note the lack of the "-s" in the quoted line. :-) Mike Stone -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
