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Help text update suggestion for "date" util

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Message #10 received at 42470-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Bernhard Voelker <mail <at> bernhard-voelker.de>
To: Wes Novack <pub <at> wesleytech.com>, 42470-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Subject: Re: bug#42470: Help text update suggestion for "date" util
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2020 16:18:51 +0200

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

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