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.


Regards,

F. Alexander Njemz




[1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-05/msg00014.html

[2] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3339.txt