Am 30.05.2011 00:18, schrieb Henry Gebhardt:
> 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
> 

Just adding the @ will not be sufficient. The STRING can be in many
different formats. `date -d 'last tuesday'` also works, for example. You
have to add a whole new section to the man page -- or just refer to the
info page ;-)

Regards,
Florian Philipp