Package: coreutils Version: 5.97-5.2 Severity: wishlist The "date" command should support ISO-8601 / W3C time formats, both as input (parsing) and output.
Note that the W3C format[1] (used in XML schema) is a particular form of ISO 8601. There must be a ":" between the hours and the minutes in the time zone designator. The old --iso-8601 option did not add one. Moreover, still in output, 'Z' should be used instead of +00:00 or -00:00 as this is the canonical representation in XML schema[2]. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#dateTime-timezones -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686-bigmem Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages coreutils depends on: ii libacl1 2.2.42-1 Access control list shared library ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libselinux1 1.32-3 SELinux shared libraries coreutils recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
