Improve wording of date and time man page.

* man/date.x: Improve compact description of the --date=STRING.
* man/touch.x: Likewise.
Suggested by A. Costa.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
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@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2008-01-31  Bob Proulx  <bob@proulx.com>
+
+       Improve wording of date and time man page.
+       * man/date.x: Improve compact description of the --date=STRING.
+       * man/touch.x: Likewise.
+       Suggested by A. Costa.
+
 2008-01-31  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
 
        Remove alignment constraint from the sha*_read_ctx functions.

diff --git a/man/date.x b/man/date.x
index c6e3a65706141b00e3d79e4dc4e170df909f81d1..bbcbafcb6bd3a9af4de1b5bd1abb7997f0b78447 100644 (file)
--- a/man/date.x
+++ b/man/date.x
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ date \- print or set the system date and time
 .\" NOTE: keep this paragraph in sync with the one in touch.x
 The --date=STRING is a mostly free format human readable date string
 such as "Sun, 29 Feb 2004 16:21:42 -0800" or "2004-02-29 16:21:42" or
-even "next Thursday".  If empty the string indicates the beginning of
-the day.  The string may contain calendar date items, time of day
-items, time zone items, day of week items, relative items, and pure
-numbers.  The date string format is more complex than is easily
+even "next Thursday".  A date string may contain items indicating
+calendar date, time of day, time zone, day of week, relative time,
+relative date, and numbers.  An empty string indicates the beginning
+of the day.  The date string format is more complex than is easily
 documented here but is fully described in the info documentation.

diff --git a/man/touch.x b/man/touch.x
index 71f405bf69efb3c223ef100a64668664cd061d8b..6c3aac2998f6c0351a4d4db500023ce6d457b3e3 100644 (file)
--- a/man/touch.x
+++ b/man/touch.x
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ touch \- change file timestamps
 .\" NOTE: keep this paragraph in sync with the one in date.x
 The --date=STRING is a mostly free format human readable date string
 such as "Sun, 29 Feb 2004 16:21:42 -0800" or "2004-02-29 16:21:42" or
-even "next Thursday".  If empty the string indicates the beginning of
-the day.  The string may contain calendar date items, time of day
-items, time zone items, day of week items, relative items, and pure
-numbers.  The date string format is more complex than is easily
+even "next Thursday".  A date string may contain items indicating
+calendar date, time of day, time zone, day of week, relative time,
+relative date, and numbers.  An empty string indicates the beginning
+of the day.  The date string format is more complex than is easily
 documented here but is fully described in the info documentation.