Subject: bug#42470: closed (Re: bug#42470: Help text update suggestion for "date" util)

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Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2020 14:20:02 +0000

Your bug report

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

which was filed against the coreutils package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#42470: Help text update suggestion for "date" util
From: Bernhard Voelker <[email-masked]>
To: Wes Novack <[email-masked]>, [email-masked], Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2020 16:18:51 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

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

Subject: Help text update suggestion for "date" util
From: Wes Novack <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2020 11:45:44 -0600
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

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?

Thank you!
Wes