2019-08-01 03:24:29 -0600, Assaf Gordon:
[...]
> > > I like this, and think it's useful functionality.
> > > It's equivalent to -f in date(1) on FreeBSD,
> > > so we should probably support that short option
> > [...]
> >
> > Note that busybox date has -D for that.
>
> In gnu date(1), -f is already assigned to "--file" (batch processing).
> I added the "-D" short option.
Sorry, I forgot to mention ast-open's -p/--parse (already there
in 2004) which predates busybox' -D (2006):
-p, --parse=format
Add format to the list of strptime(3) parse conversion
formats. format follows the same conventions as the --format
option, with the addition of these format fields:
| If the format failed before this point then restart
the parse with the remaining format.
& Call the tmdate(3) heuristic parser. This is is the
default when --parse is omitted.
--
Stephane
