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Subject: date "+%s"
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>Number:         426
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       Is 'date "+%s"' supported?
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs (FreeBSD bugs mailing list)
>State:          closed
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue May 16 15:10:00 1995
>Closed-Date:    Tue May 16 18:14:57 PDT 1995
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Alan Bawden
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.0-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:

>Description:

	In 1.1.5.1, the command 'date "+%s"' prints '800661335' (for some
	number of seconds).  In 2.0, the same command prints 's'.  The man
	page for `date' refers me to the man page for `strftime'.  The man
	page for `strftime' documents `%s' as an "extension".  I haven't
	tried to call `strftime' directly.

>How-To-Repeat:
	
>Fix:
	
	Change the documentation, or change the code.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: davidg 
State-Changed-When: Tue May 16 18:14:57 PDT 1995 
State-Changed-Why:  
The bug was fixed in rev 1.2 of strftime.c: 

revision 1.2 
date: 1995/03/01 23:08:40;  author: joerg;  state: Exp;  lines: +22 -0 
On snap 950210, format %s (print seconds from the epoch) is missing 
from the code in strftime.c . This affects both the library code 
and all the commands using it (e.g. date +%s). 

Note that %s is not required by ANSI, but we've already got it in 1.1.5.1. 

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