Re: date --help sends one digging RFCs

[Philip Rowlands]

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Dan Jacobson wrote:

>man date and date --help have got to be kidding saying things like
>       -R, --rfc-2822
>              output RFC-2822 compliant date string
>whereupon we have to go looking up what RFC-2822 compliant date
>strings look like.  Make sure to show what they look like right there.

Consider that most people reading the docs will know the option exists
and are simply confirming syntax, or won't care.

The info(1) documentation explains that the option is equivalent to the
format string '%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z', so whipping out a RFC2822
printout is not strictly necessary.


Cheers,
Phil