options for 'date' via busybox

[Robin Paulson]

2009/8/16 Christian Himpel <chressie at googlemail.com>:
> On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 09:52, Robin Paulson<robin.paulson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> are there any other apps/scripts/methods around that will return
>> similar, and run on the freerunner?
>
> you could install coreutils. it contains another (maybe more common)
> `date' implementation.

cheers for the suggestion, that would have helped, but i figured out
busybox a few minutes ago. seems a whole lot of functionality isn't
documented. trial and error was the only way.....