Re: Enhacement request - 'date' util

[Matthew Woehlke]

Please use newlines and don't use HTML entities in text mail (or don't 
send HTML, if that was the problem).

Your original mail looked like this:
> Good morning from Spain,first of all, thanks for your effort and for this rich
> featured tools... awesome work!Secondly, to the "date" command
> developers, it would be possible to develop the "-a" feature, like

It is extremely difficult to read this block of text that has no 
newlines except where line wrapping occurred, is missing spaces between 
paragraphs, and is strewn with HTML entities.

I have reformatted the relevant parts so that it is legible.

Alejandro Redondo wrote:
> Secondly, to the "date" command developers, it would be possible to
> develop the "-a" feature, like other UNIXes distros do?
>
> Man from solaris 10:
> -a [-]sss.fff   Slowly adjust the time by sss.fff seconds (fff
> represents fractions of a second). This adjustment can be positive or
> negative.  The system's clock is sped up or slowed down until it has
> drifted by the number of seconds specified.
>
> Man from hpux 11.23:
> [snipped; same as above]
>
> Really useful feature to avoid crashes and dumps in apps like SAP or
> Oracle when changing time is needed.

While that does indeed sound like an interesting option, and there is 
precedent of other OS's having it, I am curious why you don't just use ntpd?

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Matthew
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