* Bugzilla 207345 zdump(8) manual page -c/-t options
@ 2020-04-23 12:28 Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
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From: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) @ 2020-04-23 12:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Paul Eggert; +Cc: Marco Curreli, linux-man
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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