From: Jim Meyering Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 12:47:34 +0000 (+0000) Subject: use Cambridge, Mass example, not Azores one X-Git-Tag: SH-UTILS-1_16d~37 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb/index.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=821c3f6fda9d289eec1fa2d49684a95f5df9d32f;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git use Cambridge, Mass example, not Azores one --- diff --git a/doc/sh-utils.texi b/doc/sh-utils.texi index 6675a7a597..556f0aea9e 100644 --- a/doc/sh-utils.texi +++ b/doc/sh-utils.texi @@ -2459,12 +2459,12 @@ To convert a date string to the number of seconds since the epoch the @samp{%s} format. That can be useful in sorting and/or graphing and/or comparing data by date. The following command outputs the number of the seconds since the epoch for the time one second later -than the epoch, but in time zone two hours later (the Azores), thus -a total of two hours and one second after the epoch: +than the epoch, but in time zone five hours later (Cambridge, Massachusetts), +thus a total of five hours and one second after the epoch: @example -date --date='1970-01-01 00:00:01 UTC +2 hours' +%s -7201 +date --date='1970-01-01 00:00:01 UTC +5 hours' +%s +18001 @end example Suppose you had @emph{not} specified time zone information in the example above.