Removed already applied patch

[pkg-rrdtool.git] / doc / rrdfetch.txt

diff --git a/doc/rrdfetch.txt b/doc/rrdfetch.txt
index b6f3f2c51c9ff7102faf3660d7ff4d20560bd659..c6717d6198e42d0191fc7ece6ca9e6067d5d5431 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/rrdfetch.txt
+++ b/doc/rrdfetch.txt
@@ -132,11 +132,16 @@ D\bDE\bES\bSC\bCR\bRI\bIP\bPT\bTI\bIO\bON\bN
        _\bN_\bO_\bT_\bE_\b2: if you specify the _\bd_\ba_\by in this way, the _\bt_\bi_\bm_\be_\b-_\bo_\bf_\b-_\bd_\ba_\by is REQUIRED
        as well.
 
-       Finally, you can use the words n\bno\bow\bw, s\bst\bta\bar\brt\bt, or e\ben\bnd\bd as your time
+       Finally, you can use the words n\bno\bow\bw, s\bst\bta\bar\brt\bt, e\ben\bnd\bd or e\bep\bpo\boc\bch\bh as your time
        reference. N\bNo\bow\bw refers to the current moment (and is also the default
        time reference). S\bSt\bta\bar\brt\bt (e\ben\bnd\bd) can be used to specify a time relative to
        the start (end) time for those tools that use these categories
-       (r\brr\brd\bdf\bfe\bet\btc\bch\bh, rrdgraph).
+       (r\brr\brd\bdf\bfe\bet\btc\bch\bh, rrdgraph) and e\bep\bpo\boc\bch\bh indicates the *IX epoch (*IX timestamp 0
+       = 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC). e\bep\bpo\boc\bch\bh is useful to disambiguate between a
+       timestamp value and some forms of abbreviated date/time specifications,
+       because it allows to use time offset specifications using units, eg.
+       e\bep\bpo\boc\bch\bh+19711205s unambiguously denotes timestamp 19711205 and not
+       1971-12-05 00:00:00 UTC.
 
        Month and day of the week names can be used in their naturally
        abbreviated form (e.g., Dec for December, Sun for Sunday, etc.). The
@@ -241,4 +246,4 @@ A\bAU\bUT\bTH\bHO\bOR\bR
 
 
 
-1.3.999                           2009-06-09                       RRDFETCH(1)
+1.4.8                             2013-05-23                       RRDFETCH(1)