On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 02:46:07AM EST, Teemu Likonen wrote: > On 2010-01-15 05:20 (UTC), Chris Jackson wrote: > > > It's not well documented, but: date -d, with an '@' before it: > > > > chr...@hercule$ date -d '@1257624539' > > Sat Nov 7 20:08:59 GMT 2009 > > It's documented quite well in info pages, though: > > $ info coreutils "date inv" > $ info coreutils seconds > > (Or from Emacs.) > > But I guess nobody - except Emacs users - read info pages these days,
And they don't read the man pages either, since the date manual states: | The full documentation for date is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info | and date programs are properly installed at your site, the command | | info date | | should give you access to the complete manual. I don't use Emacs, but for anything longer than a couple of screenfuls, I find the Texinfo manuals have the edge over the man pages, although it takes a while to get used to finding your way around. Besides, I hear that due to licensing restrictions, some of the info pages are not available from the debian repos. As a result, if you don't mind tainting your debian system, you need to download them from the GNU website and install them manually, which is not always straightforward. I don't know if it still ships with more current versions of debian but there is a nice replacement to the 'info' browser named 'pinfo' that provides color highlighting and more user-friendly navigation via hjkl + <Enter>... hmm, more user-friendly for vimmers, that is.. behaves a bit more like a text-mode web browser. > so in practice it's not very well documented. :-) Well, that's why we have mailing lists.. so we can document the doc :-) CJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
