date info

[Alfred Carlsson]

Hi there.

This is not a bug, but has to do with the documentation of "date" .


I have yet again found myself stuck for a while, trying to remember how
to format the string when changing my system time.

Using "man date" one quickly finds:
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"-s, --set=STRING
             set time described by STRING"
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but how that STRING should be formatted is a bit harder to find out.


I think it would (over time) help a lot of people save one or a few
minutes of searching/thinking if you added a short description of how
that string should be formatted, e.g. right after mentioned STRING.

Perhaps just something like:
"... described by STRING. E.g: YYMMDD or HHMM".




Thanks for all the cool and effecient core-utils!
/Alfred