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add example to date man page

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>

Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 00:00:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

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From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: add example to date man page
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 07:58:41 +0800

Please change

       -I[TIMESPEC], --iso-8601[=TIMESPEC]
              output date/time in ISO 8601 format.  TIMESPEC='date'  for  date
              only  (the  default), 'hours', 'minutes', 'seconds', or 'ns' for
              date and time to the indicated precision.

to
        -I[TIMESPEC], --iso-8601[=TIMESPEC]
              output date/time in ISO 8601 format.  TIMESPEC='date'  for  date
              only  (2015-03-26, the  default), 'hours', 'minutes', 'seconds', or 'ns' for
              date and time to the indicated precision.
Reply sent to Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>:
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Message #10 received at 20203-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>, 
 20203-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20203: add example to date man page
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 00:58:56 +0000

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
On 25/03/15 23:58, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Please change
> 
>        -I[TIMESPEC], --iso-8601[=TIMESPEC]
>               output date/time in ISO 8601 format.  TIMESPEC='date'  for  date
>               only  (the  default), 'hours', 'minutes', 'seconds', or 'ns' for
>               date and time to the indicated precision.
> 
> to
>         -I[TIMESPEC], --iso-8601[=TIMESPEC]
>               output date/time in ISO 8601 format.  TIMESPEC='date'  for  date
>               only  (2015-03-26, the  default), 'hours', 'minutes', 'seconds', or 'ns' for
>               date and time to the indicated precision.

Probably not worth doing on its own, but I noticed other
improvements that could be made to these option descriptions,
which the attached should fix up.

cheers,
Pádraig.


[date-I-example.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]
bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <help-debbugs <at> gnu.org> to internal_control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Thu, 23 Apr 2015 11:24:03 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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