William Brendling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... >> Doesn't the standard ISO-8601 date format accomplish that, too? > > Quite likely. I will have to find out what the ISO-8601 format is.
date already supports it: $ date --iso=s 2005-06-07T08:14:28+0200 ls does, too, via --time-style=STYLE. du's default format needn't include the time zone. >> It might be nice to have an option that makes it look >> at atime rather than mtime. > > Yes, I thought of that, but did not need it myself. Would you suggest > a "--last-accessed" switch as well as "--last-modified", or would it > be better to have a modifier "--use-time=atime|ctime|mtime"? Since ls already has related options, it might make sense to do something similar. How about dropping the `use-' part of the option name and making it --time=...? `use time' or `time of last use' is a common description of `atime'. >> It's good to update the --help output and even better to update >> the primary documentation in the file doc/coreutils.texi. > > I have made an addition to the "--help" output to describe the > "--last-modified" switch, but not the details of the date formats. I > have not yet looked at trying to update the other documentation. You don't have to write much. Just say du's date format string is interpreted just like that of the `date' command. >> Writing ChangeLog entries describing your changes is helpful. > > OK. It may take me a while to do all this. No problem. Paperwork usually takes at least a couple weeks. > Yes, please send me the forms. No promises. Coming right up. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
