Re: gawk manual time functions Info manual missing vital referral

[Aharon Robbins]

The revised manual has one node for all the time functions, including
strftime and mktime.  Thus, there is no need for an xref between nodes.
I have added a footnote about using date in shell scripts.

Thanks,

Arnold

> To: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: gawk manual time functions Info manual missing vital referral
> From: Dan Jacobson <address@hidden>
> Date: 01 Mar 2001 03:15:31 +0800
>
> >>>>> "Paul" =3D=3D Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:
>
> >> From: Dan Jacobson <address@hidden> Date: 27 Feb 2001 09:02:15
> >> +0800
> >>=20
> >> Ok, ah: there is only one cross reference between the two pages.
> A-> B, Please add B->A otherwise we won't know it.  Also on both pages
> >> add note 'for the impatient, see shell command date -d for this
> >> case'.
>
> Paul> I don't quite follow those changes, but they sound reasonable.
> Paul> Perhaps you could make the changes yourself, and send a proposed
> Paul> patch to address@hidden  Ideally the patch would be against
> Paul> the latest test version:
>
> Paul> ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gawk/gawk-3.0.95.tar.gz
>
> erm... that's way beyond my abilities.  But alls you gots to do is add
> a cross reference exactly as you refer me below, so that not only me,
> but everybody will get referred:
>
> >>> From: Dan Jacobson <address@hidden> Date: 25 Feb 2001
> >>> 16:00:52 +0800
> >>>=20
> >>> The Info page "File: gawk.info, Node: Time Functions" is lacking
> >>> in that it instructs the user how to produce and also convert
> >>> dates of the format 983087570 into the format Sun Feb 25 15:52:44
> >>> CST 2001 etc., but does not instruct how to turn them back.
>
> Paul> See "Node: Mktime function" in the same manual.
>
> Yup, that's the cross reference to add.  Add it to the Time Functions
> node.
>
> The only other thing you hopefully will do is on both those pages,
> note "that for those who are looking around for a quick fix to their
> date problems, some of the examples here are already available form
> the GNU date command" lest they were to learn awk just do do a shell
> date one liner.
> ok thanks
> --=20
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