From 4763801cb221386e0adff0a0b0945861dba491b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Antoine Stevan <44101798+amtoine@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2023 13:21:17 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] add `nothing -> table` to `format date` (#11290)
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this will allow to run
```nushell
format date --list | get 0
```
and get
```
─────────────┬───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Specification│%Y
Example      │2023
Description  │The full proleptic Gregorian year, zero-padded to 4 digits.
─────────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
```
instead of currently
```
Error: nu::parser::input_type_mismatch

  × Command does not support string input.
   ╭─[entry #2:1:1]
 1 │ format date --list | get 0
   ·                      ─┬─
   ·                       ╰── command doesn't support string input
   ╰────
```
---
 crates/nu-command/src/strings/format/date.rs | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/crates/nu-command/src/strings/format/date.rs b/crates/nu-command/src/strings/format/date.rs
index 0dd087699a..84b3ed5f98 100644
--- a/crates/nu-command/src/strings/format/date.rs
+++ b/crates/nu-command/src/strings/format/date.rs
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ impl Command for FormatDate {
             .input_output_types(vec![
                 (Type::Date, Type::String),
                 (Type::String, Type::String),
+                (Type::Nothing, Type::Table(vec![])),
             ])
             .allow_variants_without_examples(true) // https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/7032
             .switch("list", "lists strftime cheatsheet", Some('l'))