From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QQybt-0001cE-Le for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 30 May 2011 09:18:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CA0541C01A; Mon, 30 May 2011 09:16:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out3.smtp.messagingengine.com (out3.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.27]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A54901C01A for ; Mon, 30 May 2011 09:16:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.42]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63E6F20792 for ; Mon, 30 May 2011 05:16:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 30 May 2011 05:16:20 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type; s=smtpout; bh=8+prKhwKp63Vw3iHDWD+jVCWMoc=; b=PpkBeu10B3sWNGa0Mx3Yrsk2o9YYpdwNG1wi10uPCgUBUV3ahzfMPNpGek+E83h+y1WT8tjDUPkq7RMn/D0HiJ7BdDHAIK1N1fcDuvPzIcGtblNTuP46KRZquPaalagFkDjPI4WLYa+oAnmAvlG7RuivpRrs5YShfaJUVosMW1I= X-Sasl-enc: aqAHqPtOWNj4uDl11Pz//fqZMLegUjupvPAFEhqgMa1+ 1306746978 Received: from [192.168.5.18] (serv.binarywings.net [83.169.5.6]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 474504079C5 for ; Mon, 30 May 2011 05:16:17 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4DE3605D.4060307@binarywings.net> Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 11:16:13 +0200 From: Florian Philipp User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110507 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.10 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Converting time formats References: <4DE124C2.3050809@gmail.com> <1306630097.9523.9.camel@rattus> <4DE1AF5F.9030203@gmail.com> <20110529221819.GA21774@bimsstein> In-Reply-To: <20110529221819.GA21774@bimsstein> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig4135330D4F387F5CD9BF9DC4" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 21f0be318e39ff430aab6dc362a94f8d This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig4135330D4F387F5CD9BF9DC4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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=3DSTRING >> display time described by STRING, not `now' >> >> No mention of the @ sign there. It does say to read the info file but= I=20 >> very rarely get into those. I never have had any good luck with them.= =20 >=20 > 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. >=20 >=20 > Thanks, >=20 > H >=20 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 --------------enig4135330D4F387F5CD9BF9DC4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk3jYF0ACgkQqs4uOUlOuU9sUwCdFnPj3zUhgO/n2zRGwr6g9LzF v/YAn1FZ248/wA7QQxCvDPV1DRBdxbUa =PyXU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig4135330D4F387F5CD9BF9DC4--