[Bug-tar] Re: who updates docs on gnu.org?

[Jim Meyering]

David T-G <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jim --
>
> Please forgive the out-of-band intrusion...  I noticed an error in the
> tar man page at
>
>   http://www.gnu.org/manual/tar-1.12/html_chapter/tar_7.html#SEC100

Thanks for reporting that.
Tar 1.12 is way out of date, and that HTML manual is automatically
generated, so it should be easy for someone to update it.

> but couldn't see where to submit such a notice -- but I did see your name
> in the credits, and thought I might be so bold as to let you know.

No trouble.  I found the address, address@hidden, on
this page: http://www.gnu.org/manual/.  Also, reports about tar
can be sent to address@hidden

> The page says
>
>   Calendar date item
>
>      A calendar date item specifies a day of the year. It is specified
>      differently, depending on whether the month is specified numerically
>      or literally. All these strings specify the same calendar date:
>   1970-09-17           # ISO 8601.
>   70-9-17              # This century assumed by default.
>   70-09-17             # Leading zeros are ignored.
>   9/17/72              # Common U.S. writing.
>   24 September 1972
>   24 Sept 72           # September has a special abbreviation.
>   24 Sep 72            # Three-letter abbreviations always allowed.
>   Sep 24, 1972
>   24-sep-72
>   24sep72
>
> and notes that they "specify the same calendar date" but unless there's
> something that I *really* need to learn abotu ISO 8601, these dates are
> in groups two years apart.
>
> I was pointed to this link by the PHP manual (I'm trying to figure out
> how to turn "yyyymmddHHMMSS" into something pretty; urgh); even if it is
> an outdated man page I would think that it should be corrected, but if it
> is indeed outdated please let me know and I'll tell the php people.

FWIW, it is corrected in the manual for 1.13.25.