Removed a time-restricted warning about changed options to bin/mkpatch

- Legacy-Id: 18629

bin/mkpatch

@@ -80,12 +80,14 @@ if   [ "$(uname)" = "Linux" ]; then
     if [ $? != 0 ] ; then die "Terminating..." >&2 ; exit 1 ; fi
     eval set -- "$args"
     sed="sed -r"
+    date="date -d"
 else
     # Darwin, BSDs
     args=$(getopt -o$shortopts $SV $*)
     if [ $? != 0 ] ; then die "Terminating..." >&2 ; exit 1 ; fi
     set -- $args
     sed="sed -E"
+    date="date -j -f %Y-%m-%d"
 fi
 
 while true ; do
@@ -105,16 +107,6 @@ done
 # ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 # The program itself
 
-today=$(date +%s)
-until=$(date -d 2020-10-01 +%s)
-if [ $today -lt $until ]; then
-  echo -e "\n** Please note that the --name switch must now be used if you want to specify"\
-          "\n   a name.  If a changeset is given with the -c switch, the name can be"\
-          "\n   autogenerated from the commit comment, though."\
-          "\n"
-fi
-
-
 if   [ "$CHG" ]; then
   if [ "$NAME" ]; then
     name="${NAME//_/-}-c$CHG"