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Wishlist: date(1): missing search keyword (UTC)

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From: Andreas Mohr <andi <at> lisas.de>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Wishlist: date(1): missing search keyword (UTC)
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2013 13:21:27 +0200

Hi,

just did man date, searched for "UTC" yet failed to hit the desired
-u (--utc) section (IOW, a somewhat annoying productivity roadbump).

Thus it would be useful to extend
       -u, --utc, --universal
              print or set Coordinated Universal Time
to
       -u, --utc, --universal
              print or set Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)

in order to avoid dearly wasted seconds of a many users' lifetime :)


I would have submitted a format-patch vs. master, but due to the confusing
(but likely useful) indirection in source I failed to successfully grep
on where to change things (likely in src/date.c/usage() since that output
possibly gets auto-generated into man pages,
but perhaps somewhere else as well).

Thanks!

Andreas Mohr

Message #10 received at 14535-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Andreas Mohr <andi <at> lisas.de>
Cc: 14535-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#14535: Wishlist: date(1): missing search keyword (UTC)
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2013 00:47:33 +0100

On 06/02/2013 12:21 PM, Andreas Mohr wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> just did man date, searched for "UTC" yet failed to hit the desired
> -u (--utc) section (IOW, a somewhat annoying productivity roadbump).
> 
> Thus it would be useful to extend
>        -u, --utc, --universal
>               print or set Coordinated Universal Time
> to
>        -u, --utc, --universal
>               print or set Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)
> 
> in order to avoid dearly wasted seconds of a many users' lifetime :)
> 
> 
> I would have submitted a format-patch vs. master, but due to the confusing
> (but likely useful) indirection in source I failed to successfully grep
> on where to change things (likely in src/date.c/usage() since that output
> possibly gets auto-generated into man pages,
> but perhaps somewhere else as well).

Yes that's a bit better and fits in the line,
so I've pushed that in your name.

Note personally I use "smartcase" matching,
and so usually search for lower case to match case insensitively.
I use vim as my MANPAGER, but you can also use this with less
by setting 'i' in your LESS env variable.

cheers,
Pádraig.

Message #13 received at 14535 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Bernhard Voelker <mail <at> bernhard-voelker.de>
To: 14535 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, P <at> draigBrady.com, andi <at> lisas.de
Subject: Re: bug#14535: Wishlist: date(1): missing search keyword (UTC)
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2013 08:53:21 +0200

On 06/03/2013 01:47 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Yes that's a bit better and fits in the line,
> so I've pushed that in your name.

Thanks.

Usually, we're mentioning the bug in the commit, don't we?
Well, this one was reported as a wishlist bug, together with
the solution, and it was trivially enough, so I think it's
okay.

Have a nice day,
Berny

Message #16 received at 14535-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Mohr <andi <at> lisas.de>
To: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
Cc: 14535-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Andreas Mohr <andi <at> lisas.de>
Subject: Re: bug#14535: Wishlist: date(1): missing search keyword (UTC)
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 10:28:42 +0200

Hi,

On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 12:47:33AM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 06/02/2013 12:21 PM, Andreas Mohr wrote:
> > I would have submitted a format-patch vs. master, but due to the confusing
> > (but likely useful) indirection in source I failed to successfully grep
> > on where to change things (likely in src/date.c/usage() since that output
> > possibly gets auto-generated into man pages,
> > but perhaps somewhere else as well).
> 
> Yes that's a bit better and fits in the line,
> so I've pushed that in your name.

Wow, didn't expect it to be fixed directly, thanks!
(referencing the bug# seems valuable though)

> Note personally I use "smartcase" matching,
> and so usually search for lower case to match case insensitively.
> I use vim as my MANPAGER, but you can also use this with less
> by setting 'i' in your LESS env variable.

Something to be done on my local setups indeed.
But of course "if I had done everything correctly"
I wouldn't have been able to submit this "bug" ;)

Andreas Mohr

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