Re: date not parsing full iso-8601

2005-05-11 Thread Paul Eggert
Nic Ferrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Curiously it seems to be the timezone that it doing it because this DOES work: $ date --date 2004-12-18T17:28:00 GNU date parsed the T as the military time zone T. Adding support for more ISO date forms is on the list of things to do. It is

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2005-05-11 Thread Alfred Carlsson
Hi there. This is not a bug, but has to do with the documentation of date . I have yet again found myself stuck for a while, trying to remember how to format the string when changing my system time. Using man date one quickly finds: -- -s, --set=STRING

Re: date not parsing full iso-8601

2005-05-11 Thread Nic Ferrier
Paul Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nic Ferrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Curiously it seems to be the timezone that it doing it because this DOES work: $ date --date 2004-12-18T17:28:00 GNU date parsed the T as the military time zone T. Adding support for more ISO date forms is on

Re: date not parsing full iso-8601

2005-05-11 Thread Paul Eggert
Nic Ferrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Note the third item: $ date --iso-8601=seconds # a GNU extension 2000-12-15T11:48:05-0800 Ah, I missed that the first time. Thanks. I installed this patch, in both coreutils and gnulib: 2005-05-11 Paul Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] *