Re: date command, how to display 12 hr format?

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 10/29/05 

Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 09:04:08 +0200

In alt.os.linux Dan C <youmustbejoking@invalid.lan>:
> On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 01:14:41 +0000, Ohmster wrote:

>>> Are you really that incapable of reading a man page? All the options you
>>> are asking about are right there in front of you, if you'd just make a
>>> little effort on your own. Damn.
>
>> No, I am not incapable of reading a man page, I sometimes have trouble
>> understanding all of the things that are in a man page though. A very good
>> example is Matt's reply that shows how to contain some of the options in
>> quotes so that they would work, this I did not understand.

> Sure, that's great if you need everything spoon-fed to you. Not a real
> great way to learn anything, or build confidence. Quit being scared and
> just try out some things on your own.

There are obviously poster to lazy to check and find out things
on their own. Ohmster isn't one of them, perhaps he's just not
that quick with understanding man pages?

He could probably benefit from checking the 'info' pages coming
with most commands, those provide usually good examples one can
try out to get the concept.

'info date'

And get down to:

* Examples of date:: Examples.

Navigating through the GNU info system isn't that obvious, but
usually worth the trouble. ;-) 

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