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doc: add examples to date --help
* src/date.c (usage): Add examples for TZ handling, and "seconds since epoch" parsing, neither of which was mentioned in the man page until now. * THANKS.in: Add Rick. Suggested by Rick Stanley.
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@@ -235,6 +235,18 @@ After any flags comes an optional field width, as a decimal number;\n\
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then an optional modifier, which is either\n\
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E to use the locale's alternate representations if available, or\n\
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O to use the locale's alternate numeric symbols if available.\n\
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"), stdout);
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fputs (_("\
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\n\
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Examples:\n\
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Convert seconds since the epoch (1970-01-01 UTC) to a date\n\
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$ date --date='@2147483647'\n\
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\n\
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Show the time on the west coast of the US (use tzselect(1) to find TZ)\n\
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$ TZ='America/Los_Angeles' date\n\
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\n\
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Show the local time for 9AM next Friday on the west coast of the US\n\
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$ date --date='TZ=\"America/Los_Angeles\" 09:00 next Fri'\n\
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"), stdout);
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emit_ancillary_info ();
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}
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