Package: coreutils Version: 8.23-4 Severity: minor The manual page for 'date' says --iso-8601 will "output date/time in ISO 8601 format", but I don't believe the format actually complies with that standard when a time is included.
ยง4.3.3d says (http://dotat.at/tmp/ISO_8601-2004_E.pdf#): "the expression shall either be completely in basic format, in which case the minimum number of separators necessary for the required expression is used, or completely in extended format, in which case additional separators shall be used in accordance with 4.1 and 4.2." But --iso-8601=m uses extended format for the date and time, and basic format for the timezone. Since making the option actually use ISO 8601 format could break scripts, a note in the manual page is probably the best fix. E.g., "output date/time in ISO 8601 extended format, except for the time zone which will be output in basic format when a time is included and omitted otherwise" - Michael -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: arm64 Kernel: Linux 4.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages coreutils depends on: ii libacl1 2.2.52-2 ii libattr1 1:2.4.47-2 ii libc6 2.19-20 ii libselinux1 2.3-2+b1 coreutils recommends no packages. coreutils suggests no packages. -- debconf-show failed
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