Say in README.developers to use `\date' in case anyone is like me and

has `date' aliased in their shell to use a nonstandard (but
subjectively more readable) format.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index d38ffc3..47a679e 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Mon Feb 05 19:39:06 2001 Dan Harkless <dan-nmh@dilvish.speed.net>
+Mon Feb 05 20:22:54 2001 Dan Harkless <dan-nmh@dilvish.speed.net>
 
        * -L isn't sufficient for specifying the path of the Cyrus SASL
        shared library.  That'll allow us to link successfully, but on
@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ Mon Feb 05 19:39:06 2001 Dan Harkless <dan-nmh@dilvish.speed.net>
        * Print whether we have SASL support in the "nmh configuration"
        summary configure prints out.
 
+       * Say in README.developers to use `\date' in case anyone is like
+       me and has `date' aliased in their shell to use a nonstandard (but
+       subjectively more readable) format.
+
 Thu Jan 25 21:15:52 2001 Shantonu Sen <ssen@mit.edu>
 
        * man/mh-chart.man has updated synposes of

diff --git a/docs/README.developers b/docs/README.developers
index 14cf138..fe31352 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/README.developers
+++ b/docs/README.developers
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ around with `touch'.
 The correct procedure to commit the configure-related files is:
 
     % cvs commit acconfig.h aclocal.m4 configure.in
-    % autoheader; autoconf; date > stamp-h.in
+    % autoheader; autoconf; \date > stamp-h.in
     % cvs commit config.h.in configure stamp-h.in
 
 The reason for the three-step commit is that configure.in contains the RCS $Id
@@ -53,7 +53,8 @@ the autoconf regeneration should be held off until after the commit, or your
 local stamp-h.in will become out-of-sync with the CVS version (granted, not that
 big a deal).  For the second step, you're doing the same commands as a 
 `make reset' would do, but using that command would require extra configure runs
-to make Makefile be up-to-date.
+to make Makefile be up-to-date.  The reason for the backslash on `date' is in
+case you have `date' aliased in your shell to use a nonstandard format.
 
 If you haven't changed all the files noted above, just commit the ones you have
 changed, in the stated order (for instance, configure.in, then configure and