>> The `T' is optional according to the standard >> >> It is? As far as I can tell, it's required. > > Note that I haven't read the actual standards document. But if that is the > case, then how can the following be valid formats according to Markus Kuhn's > document (which w3.org links to, btw)?
Because Markus Kuhn doesn't like the "T" either. I don't know of anybody who likes the "T" for output that is intended to be human-readable. However, I believe "T" (or "t") is required by ISO 8601, for the representation of the date and time in a single output. See, for example, <http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/iso8601.html>. >> So, for example: >> >> $ date -i >> 2005-07-22 09:13:17.959906-07:00 > > Good plan, I like this. Thanks Paul. You're welcome. I'd also like to hear Jim Meyering's opinion, though, before proceeding. I should mention that the command: date -d `date -i` should work under this proposal, without any changes to the date-parsing code executed by date -d. That's one reason I'm proposing this. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
