From: Paul Eggert Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 20:05:03 +0000 (+0000) Subject: coreutils 5.0 version X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=commitdiff_plain;h=859ba730d580514fdf7ee6081498c01b1c9aa6d9;p=chaz%2Ftar coreutils 5.0 version --- diff --git a/doc/getdate.texi b/doc/getdate.texi index 06f6031..ced1414 100644 --- a/doc/getdate.texi +++ b/doc/getdate.texi @@ -1,17 +1,6 @@ @node Date input formats @chapter Date input formats -@c Copyright 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001 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 @@ -46,13 +35,13 @@ 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