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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From: Wes Novack <pub <at> wesleytech.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Help text update suggestion for "date" util
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2020 11:45:44 -0600

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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

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