From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2019 16:03:04 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: doc: give date +%+F example
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doc: give date +%+F example

* doc/coreutils.texi (Padding and other flags):
Give example for + conversion specification.
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diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 886ecf451e..3eedd3c63e 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -16003,8 +16003,9 @@ would normally pad with spaces.
 Pad with zeros, like @samp{0}.  In addition, precede any year number
 with @samp{+} if it exceeds 9999 or if its field width exceeds 4;
 similarly, precede any century number with @samp{+} if it exceeds 99
-or if its field width exceeds 2.  Preceding with @samp{+} is helpful
-for generating some ISO 8601 formats.
+or if its field width exceeds 2.  This supports ISO 8601 formats
+for dates far in the future; for example, the command @code{date
+--date=12019-02-25 +%+13F} outputs the string @samp{+012019-02-25}.
 @item ^
 Use upper case characters if possible.
 This is a GNU extension.