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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2002-09-13 09:31:26 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2002-09-13 09:31:26 +0000 |
| commit | adaffb391b014595f30fcff595e123d3b4a091be (patch) | |
| tree | f0e0afe82ad90941abfc84b8ea0594ef07b030e1 /doc | |
| parent | dbe1e3529af7823915a75f2311f764cb070cce2d (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-adaffb391b014595f30fcff595e123d3b4a091be.tar.xz | |
(Time directives) [%S]: Explain why the range is [0..60].
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index ee4c32286..eaa6a0366 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -10183,7 +10183,8 @@ Note that this value is the number of seconds between the epoch and the current date as defined by the localtime system call. It isn't changed by the @option{--date} option. @item %S -second (00@dots{}60) +second (00@dots{}60). The range is [00@dots{}60], and not [00@dots{}59], +in order to accommodate the occasional positive leap second. @item %T time, 24-hour (hh:mm:ss) @item %X |