On 05/07/2010 05:55 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 05/07/2010 07:25 AM, F. Alexander Njemz wrote:
>    
>> Hi,
>>
>> as evidenced here [1] the slightly ambiguous wording in the RFC 3339 [2]
>> seems to be the reason that the date utility using the
>> --rfc3339=TIMESPEC switch formats the date with a space instead of a 'T'.
>>
>> I was confused as well, so I took the liberty to mail the authors of the
>> RFC in question. I attached the reply from Mr. Klyne.
>>
>> There is also a patch attached.
>>      
> Thanks for the report, and also for the patch.  However, I'm reluctant
> to create a date format that we cannot then reparse.  So before we apply
> this patch, we would first need a patch to gnulib's getdate.y that
> allows parsing of an rfc3339 style with a 'T' instead of a space.
>
>    


Hi Mr. Blake, hi mailing list,

I'm looking into getdate.y.
Mr. Newman has replied as well (see attachment).

I don't think Mr. Newman's mail applies to the date command, since IMHO 
date returns a
single field.

What do you think?

Regards,

F. Alexander Njemz