On 06/04/2013 09:55 AM, Jordon Kalilich wrote: > Thus spake Paul Eggert on 06/04/2013 12:10 AM: >> At any rate, the --iso-8601 option has been deprecated since 2005. > > Why is it deprecated? I don't recall seeing it in the man page until recently, > and I've noticed an increase in the use of ISO 8601 over the past few years. > This option seems like it could be useful for a lot of people.
It was undeprecated in Oct 2011 with commit 2f1384b:
date: reinstate the --iso-8601 (-I) option
We deprecated and undocumented the --iso-8601 (-I) option mostly
because date could not parse that particular format. Now that
it can, it's time to restore the documentation.
* src/date.c (usage): Document it.
* doc/coreutils.texi (Options for date): Reinstate documentation.
Reported by Hubert Depesz Lubaczewski in http://bugs.gnu.org/7444.
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