From: Anna Jonna Ármannsdóttir <annajonna@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 19:03:20 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Change of output format and documentation.
X-Git-Tag: v2.28-rc1~138^2
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=dadaad018721a82aafc06af2e94c1c2f8cef68de;p=thirdparty%2Futil-linux.git

Change of output format and documentation.
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diff --git a/sys-utils/hwclock.8.in b/sys-utils/hwclock.8.in
index dec79020ad..d72b7a8ee5 100644
--- a/sys-utils/hwclock.8.in
+++ b/sys-utils/hwclock.8.in
@@ -94,6 +94,10 @@ in UTC.  See the
 .B \%\-\-localtime
 option.
 .sp
+The time shown is in same format as that of 
+.BR \%date (1)
+by default, and additionally, the number of microseconds is shown.
+.sp 
 Showing the Hardware Clock time is the default when no function is specified.
 .sp
 The
@@ -298,7 +302,7 @@ The value of this option is used as an argument to the
 option.  For example:
 .RS
 .IP "" 4
-.B "hwclock\ \-\-set\ \-\-date='2011-08-14\ 16:45:05'
+.B "hwclock\ \-\-set\ \-\-date='2011-08-14\ 16:45:05'"
 .PP
 The argument must be in local time, even if you keep your Hardware Clock in
 UTC.  See the
diff --git a/sys-utils/hwclock.c b/sys-utils/hwclock.c
index b6a46474e5..32310b6a41 100644
--- a/sys-utils/hwclock.c
+++ b/sys-utils/hwclock.c
@@ -693,7 +693,7 @@ display_time(const bool hclock_valid, struct timeval hwctime)
 
 		lt = localtime(&hwctime.tv_sec);
 		strftime(ctime_now, sizeof(ctime_now), format, lt);
-		printf(_("%s  .%06d seconds\n"), ctime_now, (int)hwctime.tv_usec);
+		printf(_("%s  and %06d microseconds\n"), ctime_now, (int)hwctime.tv_usec);
 	}
 }