GNU bug report logs - #42470
Help text update suggestion for "date" util

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Wes Novack <pub <at> wesleytech.com>

Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2020 20:25:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Bernhard Voelker <mail <at> bernhard-voelker.de>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #13 received at 42470-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Wes Novack <pub <at> wesleytech.com>
To: Bernhard Voelker <mail <at> bernhard-voelker.de>
Cc: 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 09:07:27 -0600
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Thank you! For future reference, what is the PR process?

On Sat, Jul 25, 2020, 8:18 AM Bernhard Voelker <mail <at> bernhard-voelker.de>
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
>
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