Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> That is >> >> The default format `--date=default` shows a single line with >> three-letter day of the week, three-letter month, day-of-month, >> hour-minute-second in the "HH:MM:SS" format, followed by 4-digit >> year, plus timezone information unless the local time zone is >> used (e.g. "Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 +0000"). >> >> or something like that. > > I think that following such a description in prose is still more > confusing than just showing an example. E.g. we could say: > > Assuming a user in timezone +0200 (Central Europe) values of Add "on day X at time Y" here, and I'd buy that ;-) > these `--date` argument would produce: > > |---------------+--------------------------------| > | rfc2822 | Thu, 7 Apr 2005 15:13:13 -0700 | > | rfc2822-local | Fri, 8 Apr 2005 00:13:13 +0200 | > | default | Thu Apr 7 15:13:13 2005 -0700 | > | default-local | Fri Apr 8 00:13:13 2005 | > |---------------+--------------------------------|