From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 07:53:35 +0000 (+0000)
Subject:   (date invocation): Correct the description of how
X-Git-Tag: FILEUTILS-4_0_42~68
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e489a18ead084094a3910b8bfd5b391154a0611a;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

  (date invocation): Correct the description of how
  date works when given no format.  Reported by Ole Laursen.
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diff --git a/doc/sh-utils.texi b/doc/sh-utils.texi
index 1f51928824..8481dcd0e0 100644
--- a/doc/sh-utils.texi
+++ b/doc/sh-utils.texi
@@ -2198,8 +2198,7 @@ information.
 @cindex time, printing or setting
 @cindex printing the current time
 
-@code{date} with no arguments prints the current time and date, in the
-format of the @samp{%c} directive (described below).  Synopses:
+Synopses:
 
 @example
 date [@var{option}]@dots{} [+@var{format}]
@@ -2207,6 +2206,9 @@ date [-u|--utc|--universal] @c this avoids a newline in the output
 [ MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss] ]
 @end example
 
+Invoking @code{date} with no arguments is equivalent to invoking
+@samp{date '+%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Z %Y'}.
+
 @findex strftime @r{and @code{date}}
 @cindex time formats
 @cindex formatting times