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author | Aaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1998-09-14 22:14:01 +0000 |
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committer | Aaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1998-09-14 22:14:01 +0000 |
commit | d7b87853ad02031845dedc2e4eb43470f70629b2 (patch) | |
tree | 6711d6705a3d61a8fc1398a0e93943d2c24e793f /bin/date/date.1 | |
parent | 0e57f2a299667350f0094976659b7e7f6dee3478 (diff) |
First complete sweep of man pages, bin/. Command/function names previously
(incorrectly) capatilized are fixed. Comma splices, hyphenations, SYNOPSIS
cleanups, other miscellaneous typos.
Diffstat (limited to 'bin/date/date.1')
-rw-r--r-- | bin/date/date.1 | 27 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/bin/date/date.1 b/bin/date/date.1 index d7ca4034284..e0b087e9ea2 100644 --- a/bin/date/date.1 +++ b/bin/date/date.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: date.1,v 1.12 1998/09/01 03:39:35 pjanzen Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: date.1,v 1.13 1998/09/14 22:13:42 aaron Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: date.1,v 1.12 1996/03/12 04:32:37 phil Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1990, 1993 @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ .Op Cm + Ns Ar format .Op [[[[[cc]yy]mm]dd]HH]MM[\&.SS] .Sh DESCRIPTION -.Nm Date +.Nm date displays the current date and time when invoked without arguments. Providing arguments will format the date and time in a user-defined way or set the date. @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ is non-zero, future calls to .Xr gettimeofday 2 will return a non-zero -.Ql tz_dsttime . +.Ql tz_dsttime . .It Fl n The utility .Xr timed 8 @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ from the Epoch. .It Fl t Set the kernel's value for minutes west of .Tn GMT . -.Ar Minutes_west +.Ar minutes_west specifies the number of minutes returned in .Ql tz_minuteswest by future calls to @@ -120,27 +120,26 @@ The canonical representation for setting the date and time is: .Pp .Bl -tag -width Ds -compact -offset indent .It Ar yy -Year in abbreviated form (.e.g 89 for 1989, 06 for 2006). +Year in abbreviated form (e.g. 89 for 1989, 06 for 2006). The format .Ar ccyymmddHHMM is also permitted, for non-ambiguous years beyond 1999. .It Ar mm -Numeric month. -A number from 1 to 12. +Numeric month, a number from 1 to 12. .It Ar dd Day, a number from 1 to 31. .It Ar HH Hour, a number from 0 to 23. .It Ar MM -Minutes, a number from 0 to 59. +Minute, a number from 0 to 59. .It Ar .SS -Seconds, a number from 0 to 61 (59 plus a maximum of two leap seconds). +Second, a number from 0 to 61 (59 plus a maximum of two leap seconds). .El .Pp -Everything but the minutes is optional. +Everything but the minute is optional. .Pp -Time changes for Daylight Saving and Standard time and leap seconds -and years are handled automatically. +Time changes for daylight savings, standard time, leap seconds, +and leap years are handled automatically. .Sh EXAMPLES The command: .Bd -literal -offset indent @@ -182,9 +181,9 @@ for more information. .Sh FILES .Bl -tag -width /var/log/messages -compact .It Pa /var/log/wtmp -A record of date resets and time changes. +record of date resets and time changes .It Pa /var/log/messages -A record of the user setting the time. +record of the user setting the time .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr gettimeofday 2 , |