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| author | Michael Osipov <michaelo@FreeBSD.org> | 2025-08-31 20:06:00 +0000 |
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| committer | Michael Osipov <michaelo@FreeBSD.org> | 2025-09-01 16:51:45 +0000 |
| commit | 21628c79d541b55b5e60231cefec73ca31719b6d (patch) | |
| tree | 3954a8b79cc31b5108963118e982516da8e262c9 | |
| parent | b370fb00c89e9182f650943902a008f0c60883d6 (diff) | |
date(1): Improve manpage around '-I'
* ISO 8601 defines two formats: basic and extended, clarify that we
output the extended format only.
* Clarify that ISO 8601 is only aware of timezone /offsets/, not timezones,
it has no relation to the Olson timezone database (TZ environment variable).
Reviewed by: otis (mentor), des
MFC after: 3 days
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D52314
| -rw-r--r-- | bin/date/date.1 | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/bin/date/date.1 b/bin/date/date.1 index 62d28a7df0a0..b86a660a924d 100644 --- a/bin/date/date.1 +++ b/bin/date/date.1 @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.Dd September 10, 2024 +.Dd September 1, 2025 .Dt DATE 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ format. Parsing is done using .Xr strptime 3 . .It Fl I Ns Op Ar FMT -Use +Use extended .St -iso8601 output format. .Ar FMT @@ -154,9 +154,9 @@ is .Cm seconds , or .Cm ns Pc , -the +the extended .St -iso8601 -format includes the timezone. +format includes the timezone offset. .It Fl j Do not try to set the date. This allows you to use the |