svn commit: r345365 - head/bin/date

Ian Lepore ian at freebsd.org
Thu Mar 21 15:24:11 UTC 2019


On Thu, 2019-03-21 at 06:47 +0000, Warner Losh wrote:
> Author: imp
> Date: Thu Mar 21 06:47:23 2019
> New Revision: 345365
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/345365
> 
> Log:
>   Remove -n flag, fix setting date / time
>   

IMO, the -n flag should still be accepted, but ignored, to provide
compatibility with anybody's old scripts or other automation that uses
date -n, since the new default behavior is exactly what the old -n flag
provided.

On the other hand, the fact that date(1) has failed to set the date for
about 3 months shows that it isn't a heavily-used command.

-- Ian



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