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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

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