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Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 00:18:19 +0200
From: Henry Gebhardt <hsggebhardt@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Converting time formats
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On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 09:28:47PM -0500, Dale wrote:
> 
> I went back to the man page, it sort of left the @ out on mine:
> 
>         -d, --date=STRING
>                display time described by STRING, not `now'
> 
> No mention of the @ sign there.  It does say to read the info file but I 
> very rarely get into those.  I never have had any good luck with them.  

May I suggest sending a patch upstream? That'd be pretty cool. Just fix
it in the right place where everyone will find it. I bet other people
would appreciate it, too.


Thanks,

H