I've found the following necessary. Opinions welcome IMO. $ date +"%F %H:%M UTC%z" 2003-09-17 19:43 UTC+0200
May I suggest that this format - or something similar gets used for date and time on the webpage and elsewhere, as the maintainer might find apropriate. At least considering, not necessarily addopting fully, the information at http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/prods-services/popstds/datesandtime.html would be nice. e.g. "On the Internet, all kinds of notations are used, some language-dependent, and are they all correctly understood on the other side of the globe? Not so sure." "The new format has already been adopted by many organizations worldwide. And many more should do so – to make their own lives simpler. And everybody else's. Why don't you?" More of the same can be found at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html which is old - but correct as it seems. /Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE - 59°16.37'N, 17°12.60'E -- UTC+1, GMT+1, CET -- --END OF MESSAGE-- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/