From f0fccfdb5d3227173fb51f71e1729cde35291bb6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 14:54:13 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Merge changes from fileutils. --- doc/getdate.texi | 13 ++++++------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/getdate.texi b/doc/getdate.texi index 6c3acd1..5d64c27 100644 --- a/doc/getdate.texi +++ b/doc/getdate.texi @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ time. On @sc{posix} systems, the clock starts at 1970-01-01 00:00:00 @sc{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 expected +signed @code{time_t} can represent all the times in the known lifetime of the universe. @menu @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ lifetime of the universe. * Day of week items:: Monday and others. * Relative items in date strings:: next tuesday, 2 years ago. * Pure numbers in date strings:: 19931219, 1440. -* Authors of getdate:: Bellovin, Eggert, Berets, Salz, et al. +* Authors of getdate:: Bellovin, Salz, Berets, et al. @end menu @@ -347,7 +347,7 @@ the resulting date and time are adjusted accordingly. @cindex pure numbers in date strings The precise interpretation of a pure decimal number depends -the context in the date string. +on the context in the date string. If the decimal number is of the form @var{yyyy}@var{mm}@var{dd} and no other calendar date item (@pxref{Calendar date items}) appears before it @@ -371,19 +371,18 @@ year. @cindex authors of @code{getdate} @cindex Bellovin, Steven M. +@cindex Salz, Rich @cindex Berets, Jim -@cindex Eggert, Paul @cindex MacKenzie, David @cindex Meyering, Jim -@cindex Salz, Rich +@cindex Eggert, Paul @code{getdate} was originally implemented by Steven M. Bellovin (@email{smb@@research.att.com}) while at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The code was later tweaked by a couple of people on Usenet, then completely overhauled by Rich $alz (@email{rsalz@@bbn.com}) and Jim Berets (@email{jberets@@bbn.com}) in August, 1990. Various revisions for the @sc{gnu} system were made by David MacKenzie, Jim Meyering, -and others. The code was rewritten again in 1999 by Paul Eggert, -to improve its support for daylight saving time. +Paul Eggert and others. @cindex Pinard, F. @cindex Berry, K. -- 2.45.2