[RFC v3 4/5] commands: add hwclock

[Antony Pavlov]

On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 08:41:06 +0200
Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de> wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 09:55:22AM +0400, Antony Pavlov wrote:
> > On Sat, 19 Jul 2014 21:02:22 +0200
> > Holger Schurig <holgerschurig at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > I'd prefer a more logical format (and that is also in the help).
> > > However, in this case I wouldn't name the command "hwclock", but maybe
> > > "setclock".
> > 
> > hwclock allows to use a logical format!
> > 
> > e.g. here is a quote from hwclock manpage:
> > 
> >      --date=date_string
> >               You  need this option if you specify the --set or --predict functions, otherwise
> >               it is ignored.  It specifies the time to which to set the Hardware Clock, or the
> >               time  for which to predict the Hardware Clock reading.  The value of this option
> >               is an argument to the date(1) program.  For example:
> > 
> >                   hwclock --set --date="2011-08-14 16:45:05"
> 
> Is this format easy enough to parse? If yes, that sounds like a good
> format.

So you have no objections on using a logical format :)

I can make a small review on conventional date_string formats so we can discuss most appropriate one.

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Best regards,
  Antony Pavlov