[debbugs-tracker] bug#24077: closed (VS: bug in MAN page for data command)

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> VS: bug in MAN page for data command
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> Tue, 26 Jul 2016 09:13:17 +0200
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> Hi,
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>  I found that the MAN for "date" has wrong representation of "month" and 
> "minutes".
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>  Command: date [-u|--utc|--universal] [MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss]]
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>  According to the description "%M" is minutes and "%m" is month... but 
>  the command takes "%M" as month and "%m" as minutes ;)
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> http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/date.1.html
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> Best regards
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> Lars Sauer
> Development Engineer, M.Sc. EE
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> Phone (+45) 20 67 53 41
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> Fra: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sendt: 25. juli 2016 20:13
> Til: Lars Issing Sauer
> Cc: linux-man; Casper Thorø Vium Pedersen; Jeppe Andreasen
> Emne: Re: bug in MAN page for data command
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> Hello Lars
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> On 25 July 2016 at 17:21, Lars Issing Sauer <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hi,
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> > I found that the MAN for "date" has wrong representation of "month" and 
> > "minutes".
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> > Command: date [-u|--utc|--universal] [MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss]]
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> > According to the description "%M" is minutes and "%m" is month... but 
> > the command takes "%M" as month and "%m" as minutes ;)
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> > http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/date.1.html
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> This manual page is maintained by another project. See the following link for 
> info about how to report bugs for that project:
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> http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/date.1.html#COLOPHON
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> Cheers,
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> Michael
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> On 07/26/2016 09:13 AM, Lars Issing Sauer wrote:
> >   According to the description "%M" is minutes and "%m" is month... but
> >   the command takes "%M" as month and "%m" as minutes ;)
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> Sorry, I don't see any bug here. "date +%M" outputs the current number 
> of minutes past the hour, and "date +%m" outputs the current month 
> number, and that is what is documented.
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