Re: Date doesn't accept its own ISO format date

[Jon. Hallett]

At 11:27 27/06/2001 +0100, Jon. Hallett wrote:
>Folks,
>
>Not critical, but the date command's --date option won't accept date's own 
>ISO formatted output:
>
>login[~]> date --date="`date --iso-8601=seconds`"
>date: invalid date `2001-06-27T12:21:43+0100'

Have a patch:

*** sh-utils-2.0/lib/getdate.y~ Sat Aug  7 10:39:05 1999
--- sh-utils-2.0/lib/getdate.y  Wed Jun 27 14:33:39 2001
***************
*** 310,315 ****
--- 310,325 ----
             yyMonth = -$2;
             yyDay = -$3;
         }
+       | tUNUMBER tSNUMBER tSNUMBER tZONE {
+           /* ISO 8601 format.  yyyy-mm-ddT.  */
+           /* it's a bad pun, but a T is lexed as a -0700 timezone. */
+           if ($4 != HOUR(-7)) {
+               return 1;
+           }
+           yyYear = $1;
+           yyMonth = -$2;
+           yyDay = -$3;
+       }
         | tUNUMBER tMONTH tSNUMBER {
             /* e.g. 17-JUN-1992.  */
             yyDay = $1;

Jon.


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