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@@ -1,10 +1,15 @@
-'\" t
-.\" (The preceding line is a note to broken versions of man to tell
-.\" Man page for ps.
-.\" Quick hack conversion by Albert Cahalan, 1998.
-.\" Licensed under version 2 of the Gnu General Public License.
.\"
-.TH PS "1" "2023-01-16" "procps-ng" "User Commands"
+.\" Copyright 1998 Albert Cahalan
+.\" 2011-2023 Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
+.\" 2011-2023 Craig Small <csmall@dropbear.xyz>
+.\"
+.\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+.\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+.\" (at your option) any later version.
+.\"
+.\"
+.TH PS "1" "2023-01-18" "procps-ng" "User Commands"
.\"
.\" To render this page:
.\" groff -t -b -man -X -P-resolution -P100 -Tps ps.1 &
@@ -598,6 +603,16 @@ Set screen width.
.B \-\-cumulative
Include some dead child process data (as a sum with the parent).
.TP
+.TP
+.BI \-D \ format
+Set the date format of the \fBlstart\fR field to \fIformat\fR. This format is parsed
+by
+.BR strftime (3)
+and should be a maximum of 24 characters to not mis-align columns.
+.TP
+.BI \-\-date-format \ format
+Identical to \fB\-D\fR.
+.TP
.B e
Show the environment after the command.
.TP
@@ -1385,8 +1400,8 @@ the
T}
lstart STARTED T{
-time the command started. See also
-.BR bsdstart , \ start , \ start_time ", and" \ stime .
+time the command started. This will be in the form "DDD mmm HH:MM:SS YYY"
+unless changed by the \fB\-D\fR option.
T}
lsession SESSION T{
@@ -2064,10 +2079,18 @@ unix98 standard
.TE
.PP
.PP
+.SH BUGS
+The fields \fBbsdstart\fR and \fBstart\fR will only show the abbreviated
+month name in English. The fields \fBlstart\fR and \fBstime\fR will show
+the abbreviated month name in the configured locale but may exceed the
+column width due to the different lengths for abbreviated month and day
+names across languages.
+.PP
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR pgrep (1),
.BR pstree (1),
.BR top (1),
+.BR strftime (3),
.BR proc (5).
.PP
.PP