I'm trying to implement the options shown below. I downloaded the coreutils source for my distro and don't expect a problem compling and implementing it. However, is there any interest in adding similar functions to the main code?
I would imagine something like, date --option=four-digits-are-YYYY,invalid-output-blank-line My immediate concern is getting this to take the input as a year rather than HHMM and it would be easier to make date more versatile than put logic around it, $echo 2000 | date +%Y -f- 2021 not sure if anyone else would want that. Thanks. Mike Marchywka 306 Charles Cox Drive Canton, GA 30115 470-758-0799 404-788-1216 ________________________________________ From: Mike Marchywka Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2021 2:08 PM To: coordina...@translationproject.org Subject: the ubuntu "date" command info pointed me to you, question on modification I wanted to add an option to the linux date command to deal with pure number date stings - allowing for a 4 digit number to be a year instead of HHMM - which should be easy for me to do but I wanted to see how it integrates. Also, I wanted an output option, that I could write, to send an invalid message to stdout instead of stderr. How should I proceed? Thanks. Mike Marchywka 306 Charles Cox Drive Canton, GA 30115 470-758-0799 404-788-1216
