From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Marco Curreli <marcocurreli@tiscali.it>,
linux-man <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Bugzilla 207345 zdump(8) manual page -c/-t options
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 14:28:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKgNAkiOkwsrQhit_+eFdvVGUMw2sKp8rQbLv=rM-Uf7QwnCTw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Hi Paul,
Could you take a look at
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207345 please.
It relates to the documentation of the -c and -t options.
My guess is this: in "-c 2018,2020", 2018 is translated to the seconds
equivalent of '2018-01-01 00:00:00" and likewise for 2020. And though
the seconds range may be treated as low-bound-exclusive plus
high-bound-inclusive, the user is easily confused, because the output
*looks like* low-bound-year-inclusive plus high-bound-year-inclusive.
I think some more words in the manual page about this would be
helpful.
Thanks,
Michael
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