bug#42470: closed (Help text update suggestion for "date" util)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Help text update suggestion for "date" util Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2020 11:45:44 -0600

Greetings! For the GNU coreutils "date" utility, I would like to suggest updating the help text

from %s seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC

to %s seconds since the epoch, 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC

This was suggested in this StackOverflow post and has received many (45) upvotes.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1092631/get-current-time-in-seconds-since-the-epoch-on-linux-bash#comment10059260_1092643

Would you consider this update?

Thank you!

Wes

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> On 2020-07-21 19:45, Wes Novack wrote:
> > Greetings! For the GNU coreutils "date" utility, I would like to suggest
> > updating the help text
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> > from %s seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
> > to %s seconds since the epoch, 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
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> > This was suggested in this StackOverflow post and has received many (45)
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> > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1092631/get-current-time-in-seconds-since-the-epoch-on-linux-bash#comment10059260_1092643
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> > Would you consider this update?
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> Thanks for the suggestion.
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> Paul fixed it with this commit:
>   https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=fa7a5074d7
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> Marking this as done.
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> Have a nice day,
> Berny
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