Re: [PATCH] nstrftime documentation

[Bruno Haible]

Hi Paul,

> Given that the coreutils manual's 'date' section already documents the 
> nstrftime format, perhaps the least-work approach would be to change the 
> Gnulib nstrftime comments/documentation to point to the coreutils manual.

Still, that would mean that someone who makes a change to nstrftime.c in
gnulib would have to update a documentation file in coreutils.

It would be better if the C code and its documentation were together in
gnulib. Like it is done with 'parse-datetime': We have doc/parse-datetime.texi
in gnulib, and it appears as part of the coreutils manual at
https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/Date-input-formats.html

So, how about moving the sections [1]
  Time conversion specifiers
  Date conversion specifiers
  Literal conversion specifiers
  Padding and other flags
to gnulib, in a file doc/nstrftime.texi?

Bruno

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/date-invocation.html