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| author | Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> | 2008-01-30 15:31:37 -0700 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2008-01-31 17:33:54 +0100 |
| commit | 7cf7888ee972f526313393eefe9809721e4252f0 (patch) | |
| tree | 77ddb34e17fdfeda1c53a4012d9be494cf7bac1c /man | |
| parent | 1d6931a643e826cc18cf040a992d23bb5e2af003 (diff) | |
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Improve wording of date and time man page.
* man/date.x: Improve compact description of the --date=STRING.
* man/touch.x: Likewise.
Suggested by A. Costa.
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/date.x | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man/touch.x | 8 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/man/date.x b/man/date.x index c6e3a6570..bbcbafcb6 100644 --- a/man/date.x +++ b/man/date.x @@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ date \- print or set the system date and time .\" NOTE: keep this paragraph in sync with the one in touch.x The --date=STRING is a mostly free format human readable date string such as "Sun, 29 Feb 2004 16:21:42 -0800" or "2004-02-29 16:21:42" or -even "next Thursday". If empty the string indicates the beginning of -the day. The string may contain calendar date items, time of day -items, time zone items, day of week items, relative items, and pure -numbers. The date string format is more complex than is easily +even "next Thursday". A date string may contain items indicating +calendar date, time of day, time zone, day of week, relative time, +relative date, and numbers. An empty string indicates the beginning +of the day. The date string format is more complex than is easily documented here but is fully described in the info documentation. diff --git a/man/touch.x b/man/touch.x index 71f405bf6..6c3aac299 100644 --- a/man/touch.x +++ b/man/touch.x @@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ touch \- change file timestamps .\" NOTE: keep this paragraph in sync with the one in date.x The --date=STRING is a mostly free format human readable date string such as "Sun, 29 Feb 2004 16:21:42 -0800" or "2004-02-29 16:21:42" or -even "next Thursday". If empty the string indicates the beginning of -the day. The string may contain calendar date items, time of day -items, time zone items, day of week items, relative items, and pure -numbers. The date string format is more complex than is easily +even "next Thursday". A date string may contain items indicating +calendar date, time of day, time zone, day of week, relative time, +relative date, and numbers. An empty string indicates the beginning +of the day. The date string format is more complex than is easily documented here but is fully described in the info documentation. |