Quoting Clive Standbridge on 2010-01-16 15:31:19: > How about > date -I > date -Iseconds > > Sortable, readable, parseable and standard to boot.
Wow, thanks for that Clive. Easier to remember, too. I just tried it in
a shell one-liner, and I used a bit less logic to parse it than other
methods I've tried in the past.
The below is for the benefit of those who are just joining this thread:
For programs that expect strftime(3) format [1] this is equivalent to
-Iseconds (which isn't even documented in date(1)'s manpage in Lenny)
date +'%FT%T%z' # the part in single quotes is passed straight to
# strftime(3) if I believe, someone correct me if
# I'm wrong, please.
A simple '%F' is equivalent to 'date -I'.
[1] such as Irssi's or xchat's log format specifiers, various syslogd
implementations (IIRC)...
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