From 1c4b22fb91dd753998327a918863a24384b93e34 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 15:57:39 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] man-pages.7: Note that .TH 'date' field is nowadays automatically updated by scripts Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man7/man-pages.7 | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/man7/man-pages.7 b/man7/man-pages.7 index b31b029d9..ccc23cd01 100644 --- a/man7/man-pages.7 +++ b/man7/man-pages.7 @@ -125,8 +125,12 @@ The section number in which the man page should be placed (e.g., .IR 7 ). .TP .I date -The date of the last revision\(emremember to change this every time a -nontrivial change is made to the man page. +The date of the last nontrivial change that was made to the man page. +(Within the +.I man-pages +project, the necessary updates to these timetamps are handled +automatically by scripts, so there is no need to manually update +them as part of a patch.) Dates should be written in the form YYYY-MM-DD. .TP .I source