Added linux-friendly comment to yesterdate

dbrady · Mar 25, 2009 · 1c09929 · 1c09929
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 # month as a 2-character space-padded field without a leading zero,
 # e.g. "Thu Dec 04 10:28:39 MST 2008". This format can't be
 # constructed out of existing ruby date codes.
+# 
+# Note that on linux, you can do this directly with:
+# 
+# date -d yesterday %c
+# 
+# ...but not on OSX. Meh.
 fmt = ARGV[0] || "%c"
 puts (Time.now - 86400).strftime(fmt)