Subject: bug#42470: Help text update suggestion for "date" util

From: Wes Novack <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2020 09:07:27 -0600

Thank you! For future reference, what is the PR process?

On Sat, Jul 25, 2020, 8:18 AM Bernhard Voelker <[email-masked]>
wrote:

> On 2020-07-21 19:45, Wes Novack wrote:
> > Greetings! For the GNU coreutils "date" utility, I would like to suggest
> > updating the help text
> >
> > from %s seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
> > to %s seconds since the epoch, 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
> >
> > This was suggested in this StackOverflow post and has received many (45)
> > upvotes.
> >
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1092631/get-current-time-in-seconds-since-the-epoch-on-linux-bash#comment10059260_1092643
> >
> > Would you consider this update?
>
> Thanks for the suggestion.
>
> Paul fixed it with this commit:
>   https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=fa7a5074d7
>
> Marking this as done.
>
> Have a nice day,
> Berny
>