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Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
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1 files changed, 17 insertions, 17 deletions
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- seq no longer accepts 0 value as increment, and now also rejects NaN values for any argument. - stat now outputs nanosecond information for time stamps even if + stat now outputs nanosecond information for timestamps even if they are out of localtime range. sort, tail, and uniq now support traditional usage like 'sort +2' @@ -1492,7 +1492,7 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- ** Bug fixes cp -u no longer does unnecessary copying merely because the source - has finer-grained time stamps than the destination. + has finer-grained timestamps than the destination. od now prints floating-point numbers without losing information, and it no longer omits spaces between floating-point columns in some cases. @@ -1549,7 +1549,7 @@ 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 time stamp for %X use %.X; + To obtain a nanosecond-precision timestamp for %X use %.X; if you want (say) just 3 fractional digits, use %.3X. Likewise for %Y and %Z. @@ -1996,7 +1996,7 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- ** Bug fixes - cp, mv now ignore failure to preserve a symlink time stamp, when it is + cp, mv now ignore failure to preserve a symlink timestamp, when it is due to their running on a kernel older than what was implied by headers and libraries tested at configure time. [bug introduced in coreutils-7.5] @@ -2112,7 +2112,7 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- using copy-on-write (COW). This is currently only supported within a btrfs file system. - cp now preserves time stamps on symbolic links, when possible + cp now preserves timestamps on symbolic links, when possible sort accepts a new option, --human-numeric-sort (-h): sort numbers while honoring human readable suffixes like KiB and MB etc. @@ -3519,7 +3519,7 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- expr now detects integer overflow when converting strings to integers, rather than silently wrapping around. - ls now refuses to generate time stamps containing more than 1000 bytes, to + ls now refuses to generate timestamps containing more than 1000 bytes, to foil potential denial-of-service attacks on hosts with very large stacks. "mkdir -m =+x dir" no longer ignores the umask when evaluating "+x", @@ -3774,7 +3774,7 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- done reading it. This problem cannot occur unless '-m' is used. When outside the default POSIX locale, the 'who' and 'pinky' - commands now output time stamps like "2004-06-21 13:09" instead of + commands now output timestamps like "2004-06-21 13:09" instead of the traditional "Jun 21 13:09". pwd now works even when run from a working directory whose name @@ -3784,10 +3784,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- and -t is now a short name for their --target-directory option. cp -pu and mv -u (when copying) now don't bother to update the - destination if the resulting time stamp would be no newer than the - preexisting time stamp. This saves work in the common case when + destination if the resulting timestamp would be no newer than the + preexisting timestamp. This saves work in the common case when copying or moving multiple times to the same destination in a file - system with a coarse time stamp resolution. + system with a coarse timestamp resolution. cut accepts a new option, --complement, to complement the set of selected bytes, characters, or fields. @@ -3833,7 +3833,7 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- Dates like 'January 32' with out-of-range components are now rejected. - Dates can have fractional time stamps like 2004-02-27 14:19:13.489392193. + Dates can have fractional timestamps like 2004-02-27 14:19:13.489392193. Dates can be entered via integer counts of seconds since 1970 when prefixed by '@'. For example, '@321' represents 1970-01-01 00:05:21 UTC. @@ -3849,7 +3849,7 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- TZ="America/New_York" date --date='TZ="Europe/Paris" 2004-10-31 06:30' 'date' has a new option --iso-8601=ns that outputs - nanosecond-resolution time stamps. + nanosecond-resolution timestamps. echo -e '\xHH' now outputs a byte whose hexadecimal value is HH, for compatibility with bash. @@ -3956,7 +3956,7 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- 'cp -d' now works as required even on systems like OSF V5.1 that declare stat and lstat as 'static inline' functions. - time stamps output by stat now include actual fractional seconds, + timestamps output by stat now include actual fractional seconds, when available -- or .0000000 for files without that information. seq no longer infloops when printing 2^31 or more numbers. @@ -4514,14 +4514,14 @@ point at which the packages merged to form the coreutils: * ls -n now implies -l, as per POSIX. * ls can now display dates and times in one of four time styles: - - The 'full-iso' time style gives full ISO-style time stamps like + - The 'full-iso' time style gives full ISO-style timestamps like '2001-05-14 23:45:56.477817180 -0700'. - - The 'iso' time style gives ISO-style time stamps like '2001-05-14 ' + - The 'iso' time style gives ISO-style timestamps like '2001-05-14 ' and '05-14 23:45'. - - The 'locale' time style gives locale-dependent time stamps like + - The 'locale' time style gives locale-dependent timestamps like 'touko 14 2001' and 'touko 14 23:45' (in a Finnish locale). - The 'posix-iso' time style gives traditional POSIX-locale - time stamps like 'May 14 2001' and 'May 14 23:45' unless the user + timestamps like 'May 14 2001' and 'May 14 23:45' unless the user specifies a non-POSIX locale, in which case it uses ISO-style dates. This is the default. |