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Basic examples for the Linux date command (learnbyexample.github.io)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I rarely ever use the date command, but when I need it I almost always struggle to get the right incantation. So, wrote a blog post for easy reference.

Do you use a cheatsheet as well?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They once wrote me a massive script for parsing a history file instead of telling me about history -i

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The other "real person" who replied to me told me that the Linux date command has nothing to do with formatting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Second sentence of the description from the man pages, "Otherwise, depending on the options specified, date will set the date and time or print it in a user-defined way." not sure what they were on about.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Right - I'm just saying that it's super annoying that people point out times that llms have been wrong as though humans are never wrong, or even aren't wrong frequently.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I get that. It's funny I think I've gotten advice in the past to always check the results of search engines because they can be wrong (as in teachers said it to me) or things about Wikipedia being unreliable. But nobody does those things nowadays. Perhaps someday LLMs will be good enough that we don't need to check them either.