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Brandon Pribula d458fa2c7b fix: update man pages to standard mdoc date format
When viewing sbase's man pages the date displayed at the bottom is
the current date rather than the date entered in the <program>.1
file.

According to this:

https://mandoc.bsd.lv/mdoc/details/date.html

The traditional man date format used by sbase (.Dd year-month-day)
is no longer recommended and no longer supported by GNU troff or
Heirloom Docs and as a result the current date is displayed instead.
Although this format is still accepted by mandoc for backward
compatibility.

For portability it states the standard mdoc date format should be
used instead: .Dd month day, year

I applied the following patch to sbase's last commit b30fb56 and
it fixes the issue.
2024-09-08 08:35:39 +02:00

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.Dd October 8, 2015
.Dt TAIL 1
.Os sbase
.Sh NAME
.Nm tail
.Nd display final lines of files
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Fl f
.Op Fl c Ar num | Fl m Ar num | Fl n Ar num | Fl Ns Ar num
.Op Ar file ...
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
writes the last 10 lines of each
.Ar file
to stdout.
If no
.Ar file
is given,
.Nm
reads from stdin.
.Sh OPTIONS
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Fl c Ar num | Fl m Ar num | Fl n Ar num | Fl Ns Ar num
Display final
.Ar num
bytes | characters | lines | lines.
If
.Ar num
begins with '+'
it is an offset from the beginning of each
.Ar file .
If
.Ar num
begins with '-' it is as if no sign was given.
The default is 10 lines.
.It Fl f
If one
.Ar file
is specified, append lines to output as
.Ar file
grows.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr head 1
.Sh STANDARDS
The
.Nm
utility is compliant with the
.St -p1003.1-2013
specification.
.Pp
The
.Op Fl Ns Ar num
syntax is an extension to that specification.