Re: Date setting examples in manual

[Pádraig Brady]

On 24/03/2024 18:32, wrotycz wrote:
> I noticed there are no examples of how to set date using date, in the manual. Therefore I propose to add these to examples 
> section to make it clear and easy to do so. I used simple formats, more like 'machine formats' to make it 
> even simpler, as no one wants to use elaborate formats like 'Thu Mar  3 23:05:25 2005' only to make wrong. 
> And one of the reasons for it is American habit to make things complicated, to put month before day, and stuff like that.   
> That's what I propose:   ----    Set new data and time:   date --set "2001-02-03 11:12:13"    Set 
> new date:   date +%Y%m%d -s "20010203"    Set time:   date +%T -s "11:12:13"    Regards  
> Wrotycz

I think one example (the first) would be enough in the manual.
Note we do give more details in the full documentation (liked from the man 
page):
https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/Setting-the-time.html

cheers,
Pádraig