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authorjwd <jwd@FreeBSD.org>2000-07-22 22:08:39 +0000
committerjwd <jwd@FreeBSD.org>2000-07-22 22:08:39 +0000
commit45c2f34531bb3d5e64de8638f105bea9ce92177a (patch)
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parentbdf9ed1bd66431cd8bce8550a99e46a60c673e78 (diff)
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Expand the -r option to support hex. Though undocumented, the -r
option already supported octal. Add a comment to the -r option in the man page so it's a bit more specific. Discrepancy brought to my attention by: sasdrq@unx.sas.com Approved by: jkh
Diffstat (limited to 'bin/date')
-rw-r--r--bin/date/date.12
-rw-r--r--bin/date/date.c3
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/bin/date/date.1 b/bin/date/date.1
index 91bc198..d9d7d70 100644
--- a/bin/date/date.1
+++ b/bin/date/date.1
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ is the number of seconds since the Epoch
00:00:00 UTC, January 1, 1970;
see
.Xr time 3
-.Pc .
+.Pc and can be specified in decimal, octal, or hex.
.It Fl t Ar minutes_west
Set the system's value for minutes west of
.Tn GMT .
diff --git a/bin/date/date.c b/bin/date/date.c
index 0ee69b7..95d0bae 100644
--- a/bin/date/date.c
+++ b/bin/date/date.c
@@ -116,7 +116,8 @@ main(argc, argv)
break;
case 'r': /* user specified seconds */
rflag = 1;
- tval = atol(optarg);
+ if (sscanf(optarg,"%li",&tval) != 1)
+ usage();
break;
case 't': /* minutes west of UTC */
/* error check; don't allow "PST" */
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