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On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 12:12:23AM -0600, John Darrow wrote:
> The main question is what option letter to use?  -R (like suggested
> above)?  -N (a common "don't actually do it, just show me what would
> happen" option letter)?  Something else?  Is there any prior art for
> this?  Does POSIX or anything else have anything to say?  What color
> should we paint the bike shed? ;-)

POSIX says nothing about it:

 http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/date.html

both FreeBSD and OpenBSD provide this functionality with the -j option:

 http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=3Ddate&sektion=3D1&manpath=3DFree=
BSD+7.0-current
 http://www.OpenBSD.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=3Ddate&sektion=3D1&manpath=3D=
OpenBSD+Current


regards,

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-- Lubomir Sedlacik <salo@{NetBSD,Xtrmntr,silcnet}.org>   --

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