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authorDima Kogan <dima@secretsauce.net>2018-12-27 19:25:12 -0800
committerJoey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name>2018-12-31 11:52:54 -0400
commitd63bb12bb6c354d15e57e4642dee3d143bb78895 (patch)
treea23c22510d31b1a3658e3eee9f5923a88fd4165d
parent8c3e1a903ddc0ac8b42bb5d6591164a091b3e8f2 (diff)
downloadmoreutils-d63bb12bb6c354d15e57e4642dee3d143bb78895.tar.gz
ts: minor rewording of the manpage
Previously cursory reading of the manpage suggested that the default format changes for -s only. But it actually changes for -s or -i, and the reworking makes that clear.
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/ts b/ts
index 1b9f0a7..28c4e38 100755
--- a/ts
+++ b/ts
@@ -28,11 +28,11 @@ dates is not supported.
If both -r and a format is passed, the existing timestamps are
converted to the specified format.
-If the -i or -s switch is passed, ts timestamps incrementally instead. In case
-of -i, every timestamp will be the time elapsed since the last timestamp. In
-case of -s, the time elapsed since start of the program is used.
-The default format changes to "%H:%M:%S", and "%.S" and "%.s" can be used
-as well.
+If the -i or -s switch is passed, ts reports incremental timestamps instead of
+absolute ones. The default format changes to "%H:%M:%S", and "%.S" and "%.s" can
+be used as well. In case of -i, every timestamp will be the time elapsed since
+the last timestamp. In case of -s, the time elapsed since start of the program
+is used.
The -m switch makes the system's monotonic clock be used.