Re: Man page ommission, "date" command

[Eric Blake]

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According to Pierson, Doug (ITD) on 10/21/2008 11:30 AM:
> 
> The "-d STRING" option lacks specification of the valid values for
> STRING.  For example, "-d yesterday" is a valid date, but it's not
> mentioned in the man page.  

Thanks for the report.  However, the man page is generated from the --help
output, which is already quite lengthy.  It also includes this sentence:

  The  full documentation for date is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If
  the info and date programs are properly installed  at  your  site,  the
  command

        info date

  should give you access to the complete manual.

Furthermore, within the info manual, the documentation of valid date
formats spans several pages (ie. it is WAY too complex to concisely
summarize in one or two sentences).

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