In 2020 I blogged that
[…] macOS is becoming less Unix-y every year,
date(1)is outdated […]
While I was coding, I thought that I’m (SSH’d to) on my FreeBSD machine but I was on macOS, I noticed that the -I flag suddenly works.
I wondered if Apple has updated the date(1) command in macOS Ventura.
Luckily, I have macOS Monterey at home as well.
Here’s the date(1) command on macOS Monterey
Here it is on macOS Ventura
Ah, so it works!
Did Apple update something? I’m pretty sure it’s mentioned in the history section of the man page.
Here’s the man page of date(1) on macOS Monterey
Wait, what?
What about the man page on macOS Ventura?
Well… Either someone forgot to update the man page on macOS Ventura, or someone forgot to merge the code properly on macOS Monterey
In either cases, I’m happy that Apple noticed the change and pulled the updated code from FreeBSD!
That’s all folks…