date bug (documentation bug?)

2006-04-26 Thread stefano\.sabatini-lala
date doesn't work as expexcted after reading the man page. In order to set the date you need to do: $ date The command: $ date --set= doesn't appear to work. For example look at this session: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ LANGUAGE=en_US sudo date 0426172006 Qua Abr 26 17:20:00 WEST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED

ls -gG equals ls -lgG

2006-04-26 Thread Rolf Maier
Hello, I noticed a feature of ls that might be a bug. I expected ls -gG to be that same a simple ls, but got what ls -lgG does, something unexpected based on the documentation. As for the OS, here is what uname -a says: Linux ... 2.6.10-2.3.legacy_FC2smp #1 SMP Sat Feb 18 23:09:31 EST 2006

Re: ls -gG equals ls -lgG

2006-04-26 Thread Paul Eggert
Rolf Maier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I expected ls -gG to be that same a simple ls, but got what ls -lgG > does, something unexpected based on the documentation. Hmmm, which documentation was that, and how could it be fixed? The current (CVS) coreutils manual says: `-g' Produce long fo

Re: r1.100 of getdate.y changed 'ago' behavior

2006-04-26 Thread Edgar Toernig
Paul Eggert wrote: > > Would you be willing to assign the copyright to the Free Software > Foundation, so that we could install it in gnulib and coreutils? My answer: > > I consider it as public domain - do with it whatever you want. Paul: > > Thanks, but the change is complicated enough that we