X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fgetdate.texi;h=30d4d33727b51b3ff0349afbe97db5fc6abcf499;hb=069c0d99ae1838fc255fd2b701343db9d52cebfe;hp=07a85ced17b2c07402a214034a5eda43d6554136;hpb=188ff43355e1bda8cf19c2402c4bfe88bd637059;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/doc/getdate.texi b/doc/getdate.texi index 07a85ce..30d4d33 100644 --- a/doc/getdate.texi +++ b/doc/getdate.texi @@ -1,6 +1,17 @@ @node Date input formats @chapter Date input formats +@c Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 Free Software +@c Foundation, Inc. + +@c Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document +@c under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 +@c or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; +@c with no Invariant Sections, with no +@c Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. +@c A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU +@c Free Documentation License''. + @cindex date input formats @findex getdate @@ -35,13 +46,13 @@ programs accept. These are the strings you, as a user, can supply as arguments to the various programs. The C interface (via the @code{getdate} function) is not described here. -@cindex beginning of time, for @sc{posix} -@cindex epoch, for @sc{posix} +@cindex beginning of time, for @acronym{POSIX} +@cindex epoch, for @acronym{POSIX} Although the date syntax here can represent any possible time since the year zero, computer integers often cannot represent such a wide range of -time. On @sc{posix} systems, the clock starts at 1970-01-01 00:00:00 -@sc{utc}: @sc{posix} does not require support for times before the -@sc{posix} Epoch and times far in the future. Traditional Unix systems +time. On @acronym{POSIX} systems, the clock starts at 1970-01-01 00:00:00 +@sc{utc}: @acronym{POSIX} does not require support for times before the +@acronym{POSIX} Epoch and times far in the future. Traditional Unix systems have 32-bit signed @code{time_t} and can represent times from 1901-12-13 20:45:52 through 2038-01-19 03:14:07 @sc{utc}. Systems with 64-bit signed @code{time_t} can represent all the times in the known