Adding a '-D date' option to `cat'

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2006-09-05 03:28, Garance A Drosehn <gad at freebsd.org> wrote:
> I intend to commit this within a few days, unless there are major
> objections to it.  I am posting this HEADSUP under a new subject,
> so people can dump all kinds of paint over me before I commit it.
>
> [snip patch to cat(1)]

Hi,

If you really plan to commit this, please consider Julian's original
approach of comparing the gettimeofday() results with previous runs and
re-using previous output of strftime(), since the latter is probably a
quite 'expensive' operation.

-- Giorgos

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