Kai Hendry wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Kai Hendry wrote: > > > What's happened to iso-8601 in the man page? > > As of upstream coreutils 5.90 the NEWS says: > > date accepts the new option --rfc-3339=TIMESPEC. The old --iso-8602 (-I) > > option is deprecated; it still works, but new applications should avoid > > it. > > Why should I avoid it?
Deprecated options may be removed in future versions of the command. Applications that use deprecated options may stop working at some time in the future when those options are no longer implemented. > I am a big fan boy of iso-8601 and I've implemented it in several of my > projects. Has rfc-3339 superseded iso-8601? I think a fair paraphrase of the discussion was that instead of trying to make the problematic iso-8601 work the decision was to switch to rfc-3339 which was cleaner and avoided the worst of the problems. The upstream discussion actually spanned several months. Here are the pointers to the lead message in each of the months in the archive. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2005-05/msg00098.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2005-07/msg00183.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2005-09/msg00056.html Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
