Thank you for your replies, Graham and Colin. Colin is correct. I was referring to when I get a file listing from a named archive with -t. For example:
tarsnap --keyfile tarsnap.key -tv -f MyArchive_Sunday Having an --iso-dates option would be great! Thanks! ...James On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 11:19 PM, Colin Percival <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/24/16 20:00, Graham Percival wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 05:20:41PM -0400, James Cass wrote: > >> Is there a way to force long-iso date format when retrieving a file > list > >> from the Tarsnap server? By long-iso date format, I mean: yyyy-mm-dd > >> hh:mm:ss. I didn't see anything in the man page, unless I > overlooked it. > > > > If you add -v, then you get the date in %F %T format, which I believe is > what > > you want: > > > > $ tarsnap --list-archives -v > > gin-2016-05-01_10-44-17 2016-05-01 10:44:17 > > gin-2016-05-01_10-42-50 2016-05-01 10:42:50 > > I think James was talking about `tarsnap -t`, not --list-archives. In > which > case the answer is no; tarsnap reproduces the traditional behaviour of tar, > which sadly dates back to a time before people paid attention to such > things > as readily parsable date/time strings. > > But it should be easy to add an option for this... anyone want to suggest a > name? Maybe --iso-dates? > > -- > Colin Percival > Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve > Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid >
