Re: Data has undocumented '@' function

[Eric Blake]

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According to Roberto Sarrionandia on 5/16/2008 7:40 AM:
| Tested on version 6.10-3ubuntu2

You may want to consider upgrading; the latest stable release is 6.11.

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| Date accepts the parameter @ followed by a UNIX timestamp
|
| $ date -d @1210937386
| Fri May 16 13:29:46 CEST 2008
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| But this isn't mentioned in the man page.

Thanks for the report.  But this is intentional.  There are far too many
valid date strings to document the entire date parser in the 'date --help'
output, and the man page is merely generated from the --help output;
rather, the info page is the complete documentation, and it mentions the @
syntax.  Try 'info corutils "date input"' for more details.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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