On 2/20/20 11:56 PM, Mads Bondo Dydensborg wrote:
Your statement is in conflict with the message exchange, referenced by the bug
I linked to, with, as I understand it, the authors of the standard:
Not really. In that email exchange one of the authors of the RFC
mentioned a goal of the RFC. The part of the RFC that I quoted, though,
is an explicit exception to that particular goal. The RFC had several
goals, they sometimes conflicted, and the RFC's text was a compromise. I
was involved with the drafting of the RFC, and remember the history
reasonably well.
The ISO output from date can not be used, as it uses a "," as fractional
separator
You can use the following if you want subsecond resolution with both 'T'
and '.':
date '+%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%N%:z'
This won't work for some historical timestamps (e.g., the Netherlands
before 1937) but RFC 3339 doesn't support them anyway so it's probably
good enough.
