On 07/16/2014 09:40 AM, Salz, Rich wrote: > But then it has to be supported for, like ever. :)
do you realistically think we'll ever drop support for the -days
argument though? Dropping -days would break a million scripts.
Extending it to support a non-integer number of days seems like a
straightforward win.
While we're at it, we could extend the -days argument to accept the
ISO-8601 duration format, distinguishing it by whether the first
character is a 'P' or not -- i don't know whether that itself is too
many variants to handle.
> If the right thing to do is the ISO format, and I strongly believe it is,
> then we should just work toward that and not add variants to solve a
> short-term need that will require long-term care and confusion.
Tomas' proposal was to use the ISO-8601 date format (which is much
better known than ISO-8601 duration) for a new -notafter argument that
would allow people to specify concrete end times in a standard and
well-understood fashion.
I think this is in line with the goals you describe here, no?
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