GNU bug report logs - #7444
Undocumented option -I ?

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: depesz <at> depesz.com

Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 14:02:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #13 received at 7444-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: coreutils <at> gnu.org
Cc: 7444-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] date: reinstate the --iso-8601 (-I) option
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:43:05 +0200

Jim Meyering wrote:
> Now that date can finally parse the output of date --iso-8601 (-I),
> it's only fair to un-deprecate it and restore its documentation:
>
> Subject: [PATCH] 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.

Pushed, hence closing this.
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