One of the more annoying things to come about in the Linux/open source world is the use of “info” pages, replacing the old workhorse standard of “man” pages. In doing so, developers often ignore documenting crucial elements in a man page, instead leaving this gem at the end:

SEE ALSO
The full documentation for date is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If
the info and date programs are properly installed at your site, the
command

info date

should give you access to the complete manual.

Isn’t that great? The documentation for date says that as long as date is “properly” installed, I should have the real documentation. Why not put it all in the man page? Maybe it’s because this sort of shit wouldn’t fly with the die-hards, quoted from page 1 of date’s info documentation:

27 Date input formats
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First, a quote:

Our units of temporal measurement, from seconds on up to months,
are so complicated, asymmetrical and disjunctive so as to make
coherent mental reckoning in time all but impossible. Indeed, had
some tyrannical god contrived to enslave our minds to time …

WTF.