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authorsheldonh <sheldonh@FreeBSD.org>1999-11-10 13:34:39 +0000
committersheldonh <sheldonh@FreeBSD.org>1999-11-10 13:34:39 +0000
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Allow the year to be specified with an optional century.
PR: 14472 Reported by: j_guojun@lbl.gov (Jin Guojun)
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diff --git a/bin/date/date.1 b/bin/date/date.1
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@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
.Op Fl t Ar minutes_west
.Op Fl v Ns Ar [+|-]val Ns Op ymwdHMS
.Ar ...
-.Op Fl f Ar fmt Ar date | [[[[yy]mm]dd]HH]MM[\&.ss]
+.Op Fl f Ar fmt Ar date | [[[[[cc]yy]mm]dd]HH]MM[\&.ss]
.Op Cm + Ns Ar format
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm Date
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ Use
.Ar fmt
as the format string to parse the date provided rather than using
the default
-.Ar [[[[yy]mm]dd]HH]MM[.ss]
+.Ar [[[[[cc]yy]mm]dd]HH]MM[.ss]
format. Parsing is done using
.Xr strptime 3 .
.It Fl j
@@ -168,6 +168,8 @@ a value for setting the system's notion of the current date and time.
The canonical representation for setting the date and time is:
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width Ds -compact -offset indent
+.It Ar cc
+Century (either 19 or 20) prepended to the abbreviated year.
.It Ar yy
Year in abbreviated form (e.g. 89 for 1989, 06 for 2006).
.It Ar mm
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