Pádraig Brady wrote: ... >> Jumpin' whale gills! > > Well when you put it like that :)
Heh ;-) I had the same reaction. >> I wish I'd known about the -d @ function! I ended >> up writing my own in Perl utility just to convert epochs to dates. >> >> I'm with Rick on this one. Date supports so many different date formats >> without any special arbitrary characters designating the format. The >> average sys admin just assumes the most simple date format in the world >> would also work the same way. >> >> Since -d @1234 is so useful, and since it uncharacteristically requires >> an arbitrary prefix code, I think that it would be a very good to put it >> in all forms of documentation, even where the dozens of other obvious >> uses are not documented. > > OK how about I put the last 3 or 4 examples from > http://www.pixelbeat.org/cmdline.html#dates > in an EXAMPLE section in the man page. Good examples. I like the idea.
