Nicolas Mailhot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> The full format used in the note, save the fractional part of a second,
>> can be specified as:
>>
>> $ date '+%Y-%m-%dT%H-%M-%S%:z'
>> 2006-01-08T19-29-44+00:00
>
> It's a pity about the fractional part - it's useful when you need to
> generate unique identifiers.
Doesn't %N do what you want?
%N nanoseconds (000000000..999999999)
> Maybe a --iso-8601, --w3c or --xml flag would be in order ?
>From --help output:
--rfc-3339=TIMESPEC output date and time in RFC 3339 format.
TIMESPEC=`date', `seconds', or `ns' for
date and time to the indicated precision.
E.g.,
$ date --rfc-3339=ns
2006-01-08 22:14:12.196485000+01:00
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