I suspect this has been requested many times over the decades but I haven't
found anything in the issue tracker so...
The date command lets you choose my output format, but for input it tries to
figure it out without hints. For interactive use, this is great.
For usage in scripts, this is less t
If go to the website of say, Perl or Python, and I see there's a cool function
I want to use, then often there will be a note "new in version X.Y".
Then I know that if I need to support versions older than that, I can't use it,
and otherwise I can.
If there is no such note, then I also have the o
Oh wow, manned.org is NICE ... I did not know about this!
-Original Message-
From: Pádraig Brady On Behalf Of Pádraig Brady
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2024 4:48 AM
To: Yagnatinsky, Mark : IT (NYK) ;
72...@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#72024: documentation suggestion: make old versions
Re: other dates: BSD date has this flag, and needs it, because it mostly
refuses to guess.
Re: strptime... I didn't mean it has to literally be that function.
I just want some way to say what format the input is in.
-Original Message-
From: Paul Eggert
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2024 6:4
Re: strptime is mistake: you think that particular function is bad, or the
whole idea of
"here is a string describing the format, please parse accordingly" is a bad
idea?
-Original Message-
From: Paul Eggert
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2024 8:57 AM
To: Yagnatinsky, Mark : IT (NYK) ;
72.
Fair enough... I was worried you were objecting to the whole concept, not just
that one function
-Original Message-
From: Paul Eggert
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2024 12:23 PM
To: Yagnatinsky, Mark : IT (NYK) ;
72...@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#72023: feature request for date(1): st
