GNU bug report logs - #14545
date --iso-8601 should use colon in time zone offset

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Jordon Kalilich <jordon <at> theworldofstuff.com>

Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 05:39:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: Jordon Kalilich <jordon <at> theworldofstuff.com>
Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, 14545 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14545: date --iso-8601 should use colon in time zone offset
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2013 10:13:33 -0600

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On 06/04/2013 09:55 AM, Jordon Kalilich wrote:
> Thus spake Paul Eggert on 06/04/2013 12:10 AM:
>> At any rate, the --iso-8601 option has been deprecated since 2005.
> 
> Why is it deprecated? I don't recall seeing it in the man page until recently,
> and I've noticed an increase in the use of ISO 8601 over the past few years.
> This option seems like it could be useful for a lot of people.

It was undeprecated in Oct 2011 with commit 2f1384b:

    date: reinstate the --iso-8601 (-I) option

    We deprecated and undocumented the --iso-8601 (-I) option mostly
    because date could not parse that particular format.  Now that
    it can, it's time to restore the documentation.
    * src/date.c (usage): Document it.
    * doc/coreutils.texi (Options for date): Reinstate documentation.
    Reported by Hubert Depesz Lubaczewski in http://bugs.gnu.org/7444.

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