Thank you for your response, Berny.
It does not specify whether or not the `+` goes outside the double
quotes or not.
I understand the goal of conciseness, but not at the expense of useful
examples.
You could change the example to:
date "+%T"
if you'd like.
The point is, no example shows
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]...
After a long time, I encountered this problem again.
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"
```
Feel free to edit wording.
MCP
On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 2:00 PM Michael Partridge
> It is, although you may have missed it.
Yes I definitely did, thank you. I replied solely to Glenn instead of
reply all. My apologies.
> >
> > I think this default format string should appear in the man page as
> > well.
>
> It already does (since the man page is generated from the --help
On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 10:20:28AM -0700, Michael Partridge wrote:
> Hello,
> I am reading the date man page for the first time and it seems that a `+`
> must prefix a format string, but this requirement or behavior is not
> documented.
It is, although you may have missed it.
$ date --help |head
Hello,
I am reading the date man page for the first time and it seems that a `+`
must prefix a format string, but this requirement or behavior is not
documented.
Example:
```bash
date "%H:%M"
date: invalid date ‘%H:%M’
```
```bash
date "+%H:%M"
10:15
```
The only way I found this is
