[debbugs-tracker] bug#14535: closed (Wishlist: date(1): missing search keyword (UTC))

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> Wishlist: date(1): missing search keyword (UTC)
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> Sun, 2 Jun 2013 13:21:27 +0200
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> Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)
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> Hi,
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> just did man date, searched for "UTC" yet failed to hit the desired
> -u (--utc) section (IOW, a somewhat annoying productivity roadbump).
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> Thus it would be useful to extend
>        -u, --utc, --universal
>               print or set Coordinated Universal Time
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>        -u, --utc, --universal
>               print or set Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)
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> in order to avoid dearly wasted seconds of a many users' lifetime :)
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> I would have submitted a format-patch vs. master, but due to the confusing
> (but likely useful) indirection in source I failed to successfully grep
> on where to change things (likely in src/date.c/usage() since that output
> possibly gets auto-generated into man pages,
> but perhaps somewhere else as well).
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> Thanks!
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> Andreas Mohr
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> On 06/02/2013 12:21 PM, Andreas Mohr wrote:
> > Hi,
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> > just did man date, searched for "UTC" yet failed to hit the desired
> > -u (--utc) section (IOW, a somewhat annoying productivity roadbump).
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> > Thus it would be useful to extend
> >        -u, --utc, --universal
> >               print or set Coordinated Universal Time
> > to
> >        -u, --utc, --universal
> >               print or set Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)
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> > in order to avoid dearly wasted seconds of a many users' lifetime :)
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> > I would have submitted a format-patch vs. master, but due to the confusing
> > (but likely useful) indirection in source I failed to successfully grep
> > on where to change things (likely in src/date.c/usage() since that output
> > possibly gets auto-generated into man pages,
> > but perhaps somewhere else as well).
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> Yes that's a bit better and fits in the line,
> so I've pushed that in your name.
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> Note personally I use "smartcase" matching,
> and so usually search for lower case to match case insensitively.
> I use vim as my MANPAGER, but you can also use this with less
> by setting 'i' in your LESS env variable.
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> cheers,
> Pádraig.
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