Hi Paul, I don't undertstand the commit shown below. It breaks the '-' symbol, which now is a hyphen. See the table mentioned yesterday: ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │Keycap Appearance and meaning Special character and meaning │ ├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │" " neutral double quote \[dq] neutral double quote │ │' ’ closing single quote \[aq] neutral apostrophe │ │- ‐ hyphen \- or \[-] minus sign/Unix dash │ │\ (escape character) \e or \[rs] reverse solidus │ │^ ˆ modifier circumflex \(ha circumflex/caret/“hat” │ │` ‘ opening single quote \(ga grave accent │ │~ ˜ modifier tilde \(ti tilde │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ So, at least, it should be (but I believe the initial code was correct): .q "zic \*\-r @$(date +%s)" However, I wonder what that \* is intending to do there (I can see no difference in my screen with or without it). Cheers, Alex --- commit 918e10e8963b3c0d38d3b5fb8ec9cf08ecd03757 Author: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> Date: Tue Jul 12 06:26:53 2022 -0700 * zic.8: fix minus typo diff --git a/zic.8 b/zic.8 index 0cd0781e..e8816e5b 100644 --- a/zic.8 +++ b/zic.8 @@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ .SH OPTIONS 31-bit signed integers. On platforms with GNU .BR date , -.q "zic \-r @$(date +%s)" +.q "zic \*-r @$(date +%s)" omits data intended for past timestamps. Although this option typically reduces the output file's size, the size can increase due to the need to represent the timestamp range -- <http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/>