hello coreutils maintainers, I would like info page of the date to be explicit about the ready to use date formats so users can pick them as example for their own ones (as example: just remove the timezone information).
regards, marc --- doc/coreutils.texi | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index c801097..8c24b52 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -16559,18 +16559,23 @@ terms of the time to include. It can be one of the following: @table @samp @item auto Print just the date. This is the default if @var{timespec} is omitted. +("%Y-%m-%d") @item hours Append the hour of the day to the date. +("%Y-%m-%dT%H%:z") @item minutes Append the hours and minutes. +("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M%:z") @item seconds Append the hours, minutes and seconds. +("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%:z") @item ns Append the hours, minutes, seconds and nanoseconds. +("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S,%N%:z") @end table If showing any time terms, then include the time zone using the format -- 2.34.1