Subject: Re: bug#25554: date to support iso-8601 week-format (patch included)

From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 10:34:25 +0000

On 27/01/17 07:19, Rami Lehti wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Currently 'date -Iweeks' does not display the ISO 8601 standard's week
> format. Neither does it support the ordinal format in that standard.
> Attached to this message you will find a patch for this issue. The patch
> has been made against latest git master branch. The patch itself is
> trivial.
> 
> Please consider applying it coreutils.

This looks useful thanks.

I'd probably present 'day of year' to the user in --help
rather than 'ordinal'.

I'll add a test and NEWS.

cheers,
Pádraig