Hi, In my opinion the documentation should not follow the notation of Java library formatter, but simply ISO 8601 format. The standard ISO 8601 format would be actually 'YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss.sss' (lower case hours and seconds).
The documentation is for Kafka users, and Kafka users do not need to know details of the Java library. ISO standard instead is a more widely used notation of time format. On Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 9:07 AM David Jacot <dja...@confluent.io.invalid> wrote: > Hi Kirk, > > Thanks for raising this. In this case, the documentation is wrong so, in my > opinion, we could just fix it. > > Best, > David > > On Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 2:52 AM Kirk True <k...@kirktrue.pro> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > Do we consider the CLI help/usage message as part of the publicly > > documented API? > > > > Background: There's a bug in the help/usage message in some of the Kafka > > CLI tools. For some of the tools that accept a timestamp, the help > message > > instructs the user to provide a date in a 'YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:SS.sss' > format. > > > > However, that format is incorrect: > > > > - YYYY refers to the "week year" not the year (see > > > https://medium.com/@dangoldin/javas-simpledateformat-yyyy-vs-yyyy-f3e785523589 > > ) > > - SS refers to milliseconds, not seconds > > - sss refers to seconds, not milliseconds > > > > It's a small thing, but it did lead to some confusion and it would be > good > > to clean it up. > > > > Thanks, > > Kirk > > >
