Re: Date documentation

[Bernhard Voelker]

On 7/15/23 00:35, Michael Partridge via GNU coreutils General Discussion wrote:
> Could you add the following to the example to the man page:
> ```txt
> Show the current date and time using a custom format
>          $ date "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M"
> ```

IMO this is already explained:

  date [OPTION]... [+FORMAT]
  ...
  FORMAT controls the output.  Interpreted sequences are:
  ...

and some formats even show their replacements, e.g.

  %T     time; same as %H:%M:%S

The man pages should be as terse as possible,
so isn't the above sufficient?

Have a nice day,
Berny