GNU bug report logs - #44960
date --expose-flags

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>

Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 13:23:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: date --expose-flags
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 21:21:45 +0800

I got this brilliant idea.
Let's say one likes the output of

$ date --iso-8601=seconds
2020-11-30T21:15:47+08:00

but wants to know "how you did it?"

Hmmm, no assistance from
$ date --iso-8601=seconds --debug
2020-11-30T21:15:50+08:00

Ah, if only there were a:
$ date --iso-8601=seconds --expose-flags
date +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z

Then one needn't use trial and error to figure out the template being
used behind the scenes!

date (GNU coreutils) 8.32
This bug report was last modified 3 years and 83 days ago.

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