bug#80974: Add Time conversion specifiers quick reference

On 14/05/2026 13:20, Martin D Kealey wrote:
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> On Sat, 9 May 2026 at 22:15, Pádraig Brady <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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>      > Pádraig Brady wrote:
>      >>    %%    %           a literal %
>      >>    %a    Sun         locale's abbreviated weekday name
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> …
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>      >>    %Z     EDT        alphabetic time zone abbreviation
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> …
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>     Yes I suppose alphabetic is arbitrary.
>     I.e. users generally want to know "what letter corresponds to <function>",
>     not "what <function> corresponds to <letter> .".
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> “It's slower to search by function” could be considered a feature rather than a bug.
> An alphabetical list is a great aid to memorisation, as rapid confirmations (*1) gives small dopamine hits, while the slower search for what you don't know provides encouragement to do better next time.
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> -Martin
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> *1: locating a letter in an alphabetized vertical list takes only 2 or 3 secades (eye movements), far faster than locating a semantic description among many lines of text.

Well if you want that, it's trivial to obtain:

   man date | grep ' %' | sort

cheers,
Padraig