Package: coreutils
Version: 8.5
Severity: wishlist
I'd like to suggest adding options to cover the typical ISO 8601 dates.
The options "O" seems to be free in date(1) manual page. Suggestions:
-O YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM (possibly most of then used)
-O::S YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
-O::T YYYY-MM-DD"T"HH:MM:SS (The canonical form)
The output can be produced using current option set:
%Y-%m-%d 1999-12-31
%Y-%j 1999-365
%G-W%V-%u 1999-W52-5
%H:%M:%S 23:59:59
but it would be nice to have a standrd "-O" option set specifically
designed from ISO dates.
Jari
References:
Standard - Date - ISO 9601 (Markus Kuhn)
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html
Standard - Date - ISO 8601 (Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
