Expand the -r option to support hex. Though undocumented, the -r
option already supported octal. Add a comment to the -r option
in the man page so it's a bit more specific.

Discrepancy brought to my

Expand the -r option to support hex. Though undocumented, the -r
option already supported octal. Add a comment to the -r option
in the man page so it's a bit more specific.

Discrepancy brought to my attention by: sasdrq@unx.sas.com
Approved by: jkh

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Fix one grammar problem which crept in from rev 1.40 to rev 1.42, and
one mdoc problem from rev 1.40 (unnecessarily populated Nm macro).

Re-worded the description of the -r option

PR: 18792
Submitted by: Bob Johnson <bobj@atlantic.net>
Approved by: Alexander Langer <alex@freebsd.org>

Now, the mdoc fixes, such as:
* remove hard sentence breaks
* use of Fl with Ar if argument available
* Dq -> Sq where better
* Ql -> Dq and Ql -> Fa where better
* include sections to Xr macro
* It

Now, the mdoc fixes, such as:
* remove hard sentence breaks
* use of Fl with Ar if argument available
* Dq -> Sq where better
* Ql -> Dq and Ql -> Fa where better
* include sections to Xr macro
* It Ar .ss -> It Ar ss

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As per request by sheldonh and others on IRC, seperate language and mdoc
fixes (very important in this case). Version 1.40 should be discarded.

This version includes the language diffs. To receive

As per request by sheldonh and others on IRC, seperate language and mdoc
fixes (very important in this case). Version 1.40 should be discarded.

This version includes the language diffs. To receive them, use
cvs diff [-u] -r 1.39 -r 1.41

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Fix several language, style and mdoc improvements (such as correct
usage of .Xr and removal of hard sentence breaks).

PR: 18880
Submitted by: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@unix-ag.uni-kl.de>
Obtained

Fix several language, style and mdoc improvements (such as correct
usage of .Xr and removal of hard sentence breaks).

PR: 18880
Submitted by: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@unix-ag.uni-kl.de>
Obtained from: OpenBSD (in parts)

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Grumble. The previous commit still had the wrong date in the
example. Oct 29 0:30 +3 hours is still Oct 29, no matter what the
DST setting is, and not Oct 30..

Typo fix.

PR: docs/19554
Submitted by: Kazuo Horikawa <horikawa@psinet.com>

Mention the timezone where appropriate (for the -v option).
correct one of the -v options.

Correct confusion and differentiate appropriately between GMT and UTC when
date is launched with the "u" argument. It now operates in the documented
manner.

Fix typo in date man page.

Submitted by

Correct confusion and differentiate appropriately between GMT and UTC when
date is launched with the "u" argument. It now operates in the documented
manner.

Fix typo in date man page.

Submitted by: David McNett <nugget@slacker.com>

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Change -v so that variences in units of days or less are sensitive to
DST. Explain in more detail what date -v does when mixed with DST.

Previous code suggested broken by: wollman

Correct confusing description of the -r option.

PR: 17250
Submitted by: cjclark@home.com (Crist J. Clark)

Fix various mandoc bugs

Allow the year to be specified with an optional century.

PR: 14472
Reported by: j_guojun@lbl.gov (Jin Guojun)

$Id$ -> $FreeBSD$

Remove obsolete BUGS section which describes something which stopped
being relevant when we ripped out the BSD/VAX code.

Submitted by: Guy Harris <gharris@flashcom.net>

the month and three days are up for -hackers and the 24hrs for -committers.

add a -j flag that tells date not to try to set the date. This allows you
to use date as a userland interface to strptime

the month and three days are up for -hackers and the 24hrs for -committers.

add a -j flag that tells date not to try to set the date. This allows you
to use date as a userland interface to strptime.

example:
TZ=GMT date -j -f "%a, %d %b %Y %T %Z" "Sun, 08 Nov 1998 02:22:20 GMT" +%s

which is the standard format for Last-modified headers in HTTP requests.

only one to respond: eivind

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Various spelling/formatting changes.

Submitted by: Philippe Charnier <charnier@xp11.frmug.org>

Support seconds with -v.
PR: 6308
Submitted by: Max Euston <meuston@jmrodgers.com>

Example "19%y" changed to "%Y" to discourage poor usage.

.Sh ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES -> .Sh ENVIRONMENT

PR: 6599
Reviewed by: phk
Submitted by: Josh Gilliam <josh@quick.net>

Correct use of .Nm and other cosmetics. Add rcsid. Remove unused #inc.

Spelling/typo fixes: (preceeded, friday).

Put [+format] at the end of the usage message.
Make `date -?' output (pretty much) the same as
the man page
PR: 5269

Change example from US to international standard date notation.