bug#59827: closed ([PATCH] info date to be explicit about the date formats)

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> [PATCH] info date to be explicit about the date formats
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> Date: 
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> Sun, 4 Dec 2022 22:06:48 +0100
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> hello coreutils maintainers,
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> I would like info page of the date to be explicit about
> the ready to use date formats so users can pick them as
> example for their own ones (as example: just remove the
> timezone information).
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> regards,
> marc
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> ---
>  doc/coreutils.texi | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
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> diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
> index c801097..8c24b52 100644
> --- a/doc/coreutils.texi
> +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
> @@ -16559,18 +16559,23 @@ terms of the time to include.  It can be one of the 
> following:
>  @table @samp
>  @item auto
>  Print just the date.  This is the default if @var{timespec} is omitted.
> +("%Y-%m-%d")
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>  @item hours
>  Append the hour of the day to the date.
> +("%Y-%m-%dT%H%:z")
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>  @item minutes
>  Append the hours and minutes.
> +("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M%:z")
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>  @item seconds
>  Append the hours, minutes and seconds.
> +("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%:z")
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>  @item ns
>  Append the hours, minutes, seconds and nanoseconds.
> +("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S,%N%:z")
>  @end table
>  
>  If showing any time terms, then include the time zone using the format
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> 2.34.1
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: bug#59827: [PATCH] info date to be explicit about the date formats Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2022 18:43:43 -0800 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.5.0 Thanks for the suggestion. I installed the attached which isn't exactly what you sent but which implements the basic idea.

0001-doc-improve-date-I-doc.patch
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