Bug 14151

Summary: Patch: date(1): merge in OpenBSD enhancements
Product: Base System Reporter: Christian Weisgerber <naddy>
Component: binAssignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: 4.0-CURRENT   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   
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Description Christian Weisgerber 1999-10-06 02:40:00 UTC 
The appended patch merges in the OpenBSD enhancements to the date(1)
utility. This includes the extension of the default date format with
an optional century, and a set of spelling/style/formatting fixes
to the man page.

How-To-Repeat: 
n/a
Comment 1 Sheldon Hearn 1999-12-29 16:56:48 UTC 
Hi Christian,

With regard to your dissatisfaction with FreeBSD date(1)'s divergence
from the other BSD's, I've backed out my change for specifying a century
and applied something close to what NetBSD has done.

I chose the NetBSD solution because they've sorted out that horrible
ATOI macro issue, which reduces the number of hoops one needs to jump
through to get anything done. :-)

I'll look at merging the rest of the fixes that NetBSD and OpenBSD have
over soon.

Thanks,
Sheldon.
Comment 2 alex freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2000-06-08 22:15:51 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Superseded by PR 18880