Package: coreutils Version: 5.2.1-2 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hello,
thanks for packaging coreutils. It's always tricky with date to work with timestamps, especially to have it parse them. An EXAMPLES section in the manpage could help; this is a proposal: --- date.1 2005-08-06 17:32:59.000000000 +0200 +++ date.1.enrico 2005-08-06 17:34:59.720187776 +0200 @@ -178,6 +178,14 @@ .IP `-' (hyphen) do not pad the field `_' (underscore) pad the field with spaces +.SH EXAMPLES +.nf + # Print the current date as unix timestamp + date +%s + + # Parse a unix timestamp + date -d "01/01/1970 1123341579 seconds GMT" +.fi .SH AUTHOR Written by David MacKenzie. .SH "REPORTING BUGS" Ciao, Enrico -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686 Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages coreutils depends on: ii libacl1 2.2.29-1.0.1 Access control list shared library ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an coreutils recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
