Date:Thu, 26 Jul 2018 14:57:19 +0100
From:Ralph Corderoy
Message-ID: <20180726135719.844a821...@orac.inputplus.co.uk>
| You still seem to be referring to the first version I wrote?
Yes, I was in the early part of that message. I was more
explaining my earlier mes
Hi kre,
> The point is that the "try this" or "try this" ... stuff in order to
> find an arg sequence for date that works also allows invalid values
> for the input time to be ignored,
You still seem to be referring to the first version I wrote?
Here's the second one again that's being replied to
Hi Ken,
> > It determines the style of date(1) to invoke without relying on user
> > input, then when that's known it invokes it again with the desired
> > number of seconds but without discarding stderr in case of problems,
> > and the existing `set -e' would exit on an error.
>
> It occurs to me
