Subject: misc/10926: mistake in date(1) man page
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: None <xela@mit.edu>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 08/31/2000 12:18:11
Note: There was a bad value `doc' for the field `>Class:'.
It was set to the default value of `sw-bug'.
>Number: 10926
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: error in quoting in example in date man page
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: misc-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Thu Aug 31 12:19:00 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Alex
>Release: <NetBSD-current source date>
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: NetBSD swellbox 1.4.2 NetBSD 1.4.2 (GENERIC+MAXUSERS256) #1: Wed Jun 28 03:32:21 EDT 2000 root@khwarizmi:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC+MAXUSERS256 i386
>Description:
According to the man page:
EXAMPLES
The command:
date ``+DATE: %m/%d/%y%nTIME: %H:%M:%S''
will display:
DATE: 11/21/87
TIME: 13:36:16
In reality:
:~% date ``+DATE: %m/%d/%y%nTIME: %H:%M:%S''
date: illegal time format
usage: date [-nu] [-r seconds] [+format]
date [[[[[cc]yy]mm]dd]hh]mm[.ss]
>How-To-Repeat:
See above
>Fix:
Replace `` ... '' where they're wrong in the man page with " ... "
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: