From: Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:08:43 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Improve help message of mdate-sh.
X-Git-Tag: v1.11.1b~92^2
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=64399ee8b02160fa03576c01f1dafb5bd5d07a5c;p=thirdparty%2Fautomake.git

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 003a33060..e6df59750 100644
--- 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 e631b2219..c477512f8 100755
--- 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