On 7/15/23 00:35, Michael Partridge via GNU coreutils General Discussion wrote:
Could you add the following to the example to the man page:
```txt
Show the current date and time using a custom format
$ date "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M"
```
IMO this is already explained:
date [OPTION]... [+FORMAT]
...
FORMAT controls the output. Interpreted sequences are:
...
and some formats even show their replacements, e.g.
%T time; same as %H:%M:%S
The man pages should be as terse as possible,
so isn't the above sufficient?
Have a nice day,
Berny
