Re: Error in "man date"

Jim Meyering <[email protected]> Fri, 13 Sep 2002 11:17:08 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.sh-utils.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Richard Neill <[email protected]> wrote:
> In "man date", the %S option is listed as from 0-60, not 0-59

That's not an error.
But the fact that you think it is shows that
the documentation can be improved :-)
Thanks for reporting it.

The range must be [0..60] to accommodate the
occasional `positive' leap second.

I'll add a note to that effect to date's --help output and info documentation.
The former change will also correct the automatically generated man page.