Re: suggested addition to 'date'

On 17/08/2006 7:33 AM, Julian Elischer wrote:
> Aleksey Perov wrote:
>> This wheel has been invented million years ago.
>>
>> Install DJB's daemontools from ports, then run
>>
...
> I can not install ports onto these machines. They are appliances.
> 
> I will simply put the unhancement in out own cvs tree, and the 
> enhancement will be private.
> I'm still comletely amazed that no-one but me thinks this is a good idea 
> as it seems absolutly
> obvious to me  and it doesn't affect date's usual behaviour in the 
> slightest.

I'd also find this handy, as have many a time resorted to a Perl script 
to achieve the same thing. It does seem an odd fit to the "date" command 
(date's job isn't really anything to do with logging), but there is 
merit in the fact that it avoids having to re-duplicate all the date 
parsing and formatting code that already exists within date in another 
program...

I sympathise with the situation re: appliances, and the fewer programs 
you can get away with in such a situation, the better!

-Antony