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| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 7 | ||||
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| -rw-r--r-- | man/touch.x | 9 |
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@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +2008-01-29 Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> + + Improve the man pages of --date=STRING for 'date' and 'touch'. + * man/date.x: Add a compact description of the --date=STRING. + * man/touch.x: Likewise. + Reported by A. Costa in http://bugs.debian.org/363011 + 2008-01-29 Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> Improve the description of when dd outputs its final statistics. diff --git a/man/date.x b/man/date.x index bae08ac98..c6e3a6570 100644 --- a/man/date.x +++ b/man/date.x @@ -2,3 +2,12 @@ date \- print or set the system date and time [DESCRIPTION] .\" Add any additional description here +[DATE STRING] +.\" NOTE: keep this paragraph in sync with the one in touch.x +The --date=STRING is a mostly free format human readable date string +such as "Sun, 29 Feb 2004 16:21:42 -0800" or "2004-02-29 16:21:42" or +even "next Thursday". If empty the string indicates the beginning of +the day. The string may contain calendar date items, time of day +items, time zone items, day of week items, relative items, and pure +numbers. The date string format is more complex than is easily +documented here but is fully described in the info documentation. diff --git a/man/touch.x b/man/touch.x index 64b99dfa1..71f405bf6 100644 --- a/man/touch.x +++ b/man/touch.x @@ -2,3 +2,12 @@ touch \- change file timestamps [DESCRIPTION] .\" Add any additional description here +[DATE STRING] +.\" NOTE: keep this paragraph in sync with the one in date.x +The --date=STRING is a mostly free format human readable date string +such as "Sun, 29 Feb 2004 16:21:42 -0800" or "2004-02-29 16:21:42" or +even "next Thursday". If empty the string indicates the beginning of +the day. The string may contain calendar date items, time of day +items, time zone items, day of week items, relative items, and pure +numbers. The date string format is more complex than is easily +documented here but is fully described in the info documentation. |