bug#40958: date command give current time zone regardless of seconds since epoch requested.

2020-04-29 Thread Bob Proulx
tag 40958 + notabug close 40958 thanks GNAT via GNU coreutils Bug Reports wrote: > I am going to hazard a guess and say this is the expected behaviour, > but I cannot find anything though goog. The FAQ gives the recipe to figure these types of problems out.

Re: suggestion: /etc/dd.conf

2020-04-29 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2020-04-28 3:14 a.m., turgut kalfaoğlu wrote: I would like to suggest and in fact volunteer to create a conf file option to 'dd'. Adding to others replies, similar suggestions for Coreutils configuration files have been discussed in the past, and rejected:

bug#40904: listing multiple subdirectories places filenames in different columns between each subdirectory

2020-04-29 Thread Bob Proulx
tag 40904 + notabug close 40904 thanks Jim Clark wrote: > When I list a hard drive "ls -AR > list.txt" and import it into Libreoffice > Calc, then break the lines using "text-to-columns", I am not able to > perform a fixed format break so that the filenames are placed in their own > column. > >

Re: suggestion: /etc/dd.conf

2020-04-29 Thread Kaz Kylheku (Coreutils)
On 2020-04-28 02:14, turgut kalfaoğlu wrote: I would like to suggest and in fact volunteer to create a conf file option to 'dd'. By doing that you're replacing function arguments with global variables, which is a bad idea. It has dozens of hard to remember options, and there are some that

Re: suggestion: /etc/dd.conf

2020-04-29 Thread Leslie S Satenstein via GNU coreutils General Discussion
Just put the dd command into a scriptThat is what I do. I created a simple bash script that makes your actions easy and semi-automaticIt is attached.  Licensed GPL2 GPL3 (FREE TO DO WITH IT WHAT YOU WANT) Regards  Leslie Leslie Satenstein Montréal Québec, Canada #!/bin/bash # Author Leslie

bug#40958: date command give current time zone regardless of seconds since epoch requested.

2020-04-29 Thread Andreas Schwab
>From : A further inquiry during 1966–1967 led the government of Harold Wilson to introduce the British Standard Time experiment, with Britain remaining on GMT+1 throughout the year. This took place between 27 October 1968 and 31