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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2001-03-10 07:53:35 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2001-03-10 07:53:35 +0000 |
| commit | e489a18ead084094a3910b8bfd5b391154a0611a (patch) | |
| tree | 286177c10422c5e44e97fd1c3324f10d246801fe /doc | |
| parent | 7ee6f9593d3f8bae33f76a9634b6eb761b96a312 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-e489a18ead084094a3910b8bfd5b391154a0611a.tar.xz | |
(date invocation): Correct the description of how
date works when given no format. Reported by Ole Laursen.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/sh-utils.texi | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/sh-utils.texi b/doc/sh-utils.texi index 1f5192882..8481dcd0e 100644 --- a/doc/sh-utils.texi +++ b/doc/sh-utils.texi @@ -2198,8 +2198,7 @@ information. @cindex time, printing or setting @cindex printing the current time -@code{date} with no arguments prints the current time and date, in the -format of the @samp{%c} directive (described below). Synopses: +Synopses: @example date [@var{option}]@dots{} [+@var{format}] @@ -2207,6 +2206,9 @@ date [-u|--utc|--universal] @c this avoids a newline in the output [ MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss] ] @end example +Invoking @code{date} with no arguments is equivalent to invoking +@samp{date '+%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Z %Y'}. + @findex strftime @r{and @code{date}} @cindex time formats @cindex formatting times |