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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2010-11-13 22:02:29 +0100 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2010-11-13 22:02:29 +0100 |
| commit | f70c7b785b93dd436788d34827b209453157a6f2 (patch) | |
| tree | cdbcfcb1b8968ad5596f30ce1448cb148aecbd06 | |
| parent | ee6f187b1843a3e96784a7db43a75beae67fd06c (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-f70c7b785b93dd436788d34827b209453157a6f2.tar.xz | |
doc: tweak NEWS and coreutils.texi
* doc/coreutils.texi (stat invocation): Add sentence-ending period.
* NEWS: Correct stat change description: s/floating point //.
* cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Update, to match this NEWS change.
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | cfg.mk | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 2 |
3 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
@@ -26,10 +26,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- stat's %X, %Y, and %Z directives once again print only the integer part of seconds since the epoch. This reverts a change from - coreutils-8.6, that was deemed unnecessarily disruptive. To obtain - a nanosecond-precision floating point time stamp for %X use %.X; - if you want (say) just 3 fractional digits, use %.3X. Likewise - for %Y and %Z. + coreutils-8.6, that was deemed unnecessarily disruptive. + To obtain a nanosecond-precision time stamp for %X use %.X; + if you want (say) just 3 fractional digits, use %.3X. + Likewise for %Y and %Z. stat's new %W format directive would print floating point seconds. However, with the above change to %X, %Y and %Z, we've made %W work @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ bootstrap-tools = autoconf,automake,gnulib,bison # Now that we have better tests, make this the default. export VERBOSE = yes -old_NEWS_hash = 24f3cbd2c625a297dc4cfb1b076eeaae +old_NEWS_hash = e2a254a0d4c81397994ea10a15663ac3 # Add an exemption for sc_makefile_at_at_check. _makefile_at_at_check_exceptions = ' && !/^cu_install_program =/' diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 6a4257f61..1373f941c 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -10721,7 +10721,7 @@ precision preceded by a period to specify the number of digits to print after the decimal point. For example, @samp{%.3X} outputs the last access time to millisecond precision. If a period is given but no precision, @command{stat} uses 9 digits, so @samp{%.X} is equivalent to -@samp{%.9X} When discarding excess precision, time stamps are truncated +@samp{%.9X}. When discarding excess precision, time stamps are truncated toward minus infinity. @example |