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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20203: closed (add example to date man page)
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 01:00:04 +0000

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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.

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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

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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)]

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