Improve help message of mdate-sh.

* mdate-sh: mention actual output format in help message.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 003a33060f6469a5023b60eba25416a5de47d095..e6df597508ca559a6a3088e3c881732ffff8183c 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2010-02-22  Karl Berry  <karl@gnu.org>
+
+       Improve help message of mdate-sh.
+       * mdate-sh: mention actual output format in help message.
+
 2010-02-22  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
 
        Deprecate dist-lzma in favor of dist-xz.

diff --git a/lib/mdate-sh b/lib/mdate-sh
index e631b2219a3cc2ccb992cb1a5f2f42e6b6d84765..c477512f877850d5e34fdda2160eb410421c133f 100755 (executable)
--- a/lib/mdate-sh
+++ b/lib/mdate-sh
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 # Get modification time of a file or directory and pretty-print it.
 
-scriptversion=2009-04-28.21; # UTC
+scriptversion=2010-02-22.21; # UTC
 
-# Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009 Free
-# Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010
+# Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 # written by Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gnu.ai.mit.edu>, June 1995
 #
 # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
@@ -38,7 +38,8 @@ case $1 in
     cat <<\EOF
 Usage: mdate-sh [--help] [--version] FILE
 
-Pretty-print the modification time of FILE.
+Pretty-print the modification day of FILE, in the format:
+1 January 1970
 
 Report bugs to <bug-automake@gnu.org>.
 EOF