Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Romain Lenglet on 5/3/2006 12:47 AM:
> > Hi,
> >
> > RFC 3339 makes it *mandatory* to separate the date and time
> > with a "T" in timestamps. Cf. section 5.6 of RFC 3339,
> > describing the timestamp syntax in ABNF:
> >
> > date-time = full-date "T" full-time
>
> Hmm. Are you sure about that? My understanding was that we
> deprecated -I for being non-compliant with ISO 8601 because
> RFC 3339 explicitly requires that the 'T' NOT appear in the
> date. Reread section 5.6 in RFC 3339, which permits
> implementations to avoid 'T'.
I know, the "NOTE" is ambiguous in section 5.6. But the ABNF
specifications are not. And the comments in Appendix A are not,
either.
> See the threads here, where the
> --rfc-3339 option was discussed, and later added:
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2005-07/msg001
>86.html
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2005-09/msg000
>56.html
I was aware of this thread. Thanks.
> If you need the "T", for now you can rely on the undocumented
> --iso-8601 option.
>
> > I am not providing you a patch, since I don't want to go
> > through the administrative burden of copyright transfer for
> > so little, but here are the correct date formats for the RFC
> > 3339 options:
>
> If the patch is less than 10 lines, it is considered trivial
> and can be applied without copyright assignment.
OK. Here is one patch of two lines. ;-)
--
Romain LENGLET
--- coreutils/ChangeLog 2006-05-03 19:11:05.000000000 +0900
+++ coreutils-rfc3339/ChangeLog 2006-05-04 13:12:07.084884824 +0900
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2006-05-04 Romain Lenglet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
+
+ * src/date.c: In --rfc-3339=seconds and --rfc-3339=ns output
+ formats, replace the space with "T" to respect RFC 3339's ABNF
+ specification.
+
2006-05-03 Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Version 6.0-cvs.
--- coreutils/NEWS 2006-04-24 06:38:32.000000000 +0900
+++ coreutils-rfc3339/NEWS 2006-05-04 13:20:16.797437200 +0900
@@ -153,6 +153,10 @@
tail -f once again works on a file with the append-only
attribute (affects at least Linux ext2, ext3, xfs file systems)
+ date's options --rfc-3339=seconds and --rfc-3339=ns now output
+ timestamps with a "T" instead of a space between date and time, to
+ conform to RFC 3339's ABNF specification.
+
* Major changes in release 5.93 (2005-11-06) [stable]
** Bug fixes
--- coreutils/THANKS 2006-05-03 19:11:25.000000000 +0900
+++ coreutils-rfc3339/THANKS 2006-05-04 13:12:50.990210200 +0900
@@ -422,6 +422,7 @@
Rogier Wolff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Roland Huebner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Roland Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
+Romain Lenglet [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ronald F. Guilmette [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ross Alexander [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ross Paterson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--- coreutils/src/date.c 2006-01-09 05:45:54.000000000 +0900
+++ coreutils-rfc3339/src/date.c 2006-05-04 13:16:49.156003496 +0900
@@ -345,8 +345,8 @@
static char const rfc_3339_format[][32] =
{
"%Y-%m-%d",
- "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S%:z",
- "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%N%:z"
+ "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%:z",
+ "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%N%:z"
};
enum Time_spec i =
XARGMATCH ("--rfc-3339", optarg,
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