On 06/18/2010 01:42 AM, Jari Aalto wrote: > Package: coreutils > Version: 8.5 > Severity: wishlist > > > I'd like to suggest adding options to cover the typical ISO 8601 dates. > The options "O" seems to be free in date(1) manual page. Suggestions:
Nope, O is already occupied per POSIX: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/date.html For example, %Oe uses different numbers than %e in some locales. And it is documented in 'date --help' (and therefore the date man page), under the sentence: O to use the locale's alternate numeric symbols if available. > The output can be produced using current option set: > > %Y-%m-%d 1999-12-31 > %Y-%j 1999-365 > %G-W%V-%u 1999-W52-5 > %H:%M:%S 23:59:59 Unfortunately, it seems like building the ISO formats from their components will be be best we can do, as adding % extensions is very difficult to justify. However, given that we already have --rfc=2822 and --rfc-3339=TIMESPEC options that provide shortcuts for building common RFC layouts, it may make sense to add a new command-line option --iso-8601=TIMESPEC as shortcuts for building common ISO layouts. > References: > > Standard - Date - ISO 9601 (Markus Kuhn) Did you mean 8601? -- Eric Blake [email protected] +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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