cross-unix-documentation

commit: 8e721911fa76bbe3f6c2bcd600078140a1919a6c
parent: a7fb733a105d0f098d373ca340cdc2bf83549f2f
Author: Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier <contact@hacktivis.me>
Date:   Sat,  7 Mar 2020 17:32:39 +0100

date.1x: Add note about *BSD passing to strftime(3)

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man1x/date.1x
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1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/man1x/date.1x b/man1x/date.1x
@@ -35,11 +35,23 @@ BusyBox.
 .Ss +format
 It is mostly similar to
 .Xr strftime 3
-but it actually presents some differencies, for example POSIX doesn't put the usual %s for seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (aka Unix Epoch) into
+but it actually presents some differencies, for example POSIX doesn't put the usual (
+.Nx ,
+.Fx ,
+.Ox ,
+GNU coreutils, BusyBox) %s for seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (aka Unix Epoch) into
 .Xr date 1
 but it is present into
 .Xr strftime 3 .
 Not sure if this is a bug into the specification or not.
+.Pp
+.Nx ,
+.Fx ,
+.Ox
+just gives
+.Ar format
+to
+.Xr strftime 3 .
 .Ss setdate format
 The heck they managed to put in their manpage, followed by
 .Xr strftime 3