severity 35032 wishlist
retitle 35032 date: adjust rfc8601/3339 formats to W3C standard
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On 2019-03-28 11:20 a.m., Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
Would it be possible to make them both optional in --rfc-3339, and both
mandatory in --iso-8601 ? Or add a --w3c option that conforms to the W3C
profile? This is all so sad… Some languages like Go do no understand
neither of date's output, because they follow the W3C profile.
I'm marking this as a "wishlist" item.
For reference, here are previously similar requests:
https://bugs.gnu.org/6132 - date: --rfc-3339=TIMESPEC option doesn't
print 'T'
https://bugs.gnu.org/6453 - date -- Add new options for ISO 8601 date
formats (-O)
https://bugs.gnu.org/14097 - date: add parsing support for ISO 8601
basic format
-assaf
