Shell Nuggets: Musing on Dates
Nigh ever day I happen across some gem tucked away in the opaque vista of the *nix command-line shell. While attempting to contrive the proper arguments for a date command interpolation, the following editorial injection from its GNU info entry caught my fancy. 28 Date input formats ********************* First, a quote: Our units of temporal measurement, from seconds on up to months, are so complicated, asymmetrical and disjunctive so as to make coherent mental reckoning in time all but impossible. Indeed, had some...