Bug 417887

Summary:	Date format specifiers should be documented in man page
Product:	Gentoo/Alt	Reporter:	Richard Yao (RETIRED) <ryao>
Component:	FreeBSD	Assignee:	Gentoo/BSD Team <bsd+disabled>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	enhancement	Keywords:	NeedPatch
Priority:	Low
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	FreeBSD
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Richard Yao (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-05-27 23:23:07 UTC

The bottom of the date(1) man page has `date -j -f "%a %b %d %T %Z %Y" "`date`" "+%s"`, but it does not document the meaning of the format specifers.

It would be nice if the date command had documentation on the format specifiers to it.

Comment 1 Alexis Ballier gentoo-dev

2012-05-28 15:22:59 UTC

you should submit this upstream

Comment 2 Naohiro Aota gentoo-dev

2012-06-02 03:13:05 UTC

# man date
...
> The format string may contain any of the conversion specifications described in the strftime(3) manual page, as well as any arbitrary text.

Comment 3 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn gentoo-dev

2012-06-03 14:18:10 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 419473 ***

Comment 4 Alexis Ballier gentoo-dev

2012-08-06 21:43:08 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> # man date
> ...
> > The format string may contain any of the conversion specifications described in the strftime(3) manual page, as well as any arbitrary text.

closing as upstream (or maybe invalid)