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authorgreen <green@FreeBSD.org>2004-04-06 22:03:38 +0000
committergreen <green@FreeBSD.org>2004-04-06 22:03:38 +0000
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Give date(1) a much better SYNOPSIS section which is useful as more than
decoration. Further improvements are welcome, but at least this is a separate of the various modes of operation date has, as well as sectioning off the two deprecated options for settimeofday(tz) that don't even apply to actual operation of date as such, anyway.
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diff --git a/bin/date/date.1 b/bin/date/date.1
index 0ce110b..908505d 100644
--- a/bin/date/date.1
+++ b/bin/date/date.1
@@ -38,11 +38,9 @@
.Nm date
.Nd display or set date and time
.Sh SYNOPSIS
-.Nm
-.Op Fl jnu
-.Op Fl d Ar dst
+.Nm
+.Op Fl ju
.Op Fl r Ar seconds
-.Op Fl t Ar minutes_west
.Oo
.Fl v
.Sm off
@@ -51,15 +49,21 @@
.Sm on
.Oc
.Ar ...
-.Oo
-.Fl f
-.Ar fmt date |
+.Op Cm + Ns Ar output_fmt
+.Nm
+.Op Fl jnu
.Sm off
.Op Oo Oo Oo Oo Ar cc Oc Ar yy Oc Ar mm Oc Ar dd Oc Ar HH
.Ar MM Op Ar .ss
.Sm on
-.Oc
-.Op Cm + Ns Ar format
+.Nm
+.Op Fl jnu
+.Fl f
+.Ar input_fmt new_date
+.Op Cm + Ns Ar output_fmt
+.Nm
+.Op Fl d Ar dst
+.Op Fl t Ar minutes_west
.Sh DESCRIPTION
When invoked without arguments, the
.Nm
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