On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 06:49:58PM +0000, david...@freevolt.org wrote: > If you go this convenient-lexical-order route, note that %F is > shorthand for %Y-%m-%d
Not portable. See <http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/date.html> And yeah, this is a Debian mailing list, but there's no compelling reason to use an obtuse %F option that you'd have to rewrite for other systems when it doesn't increase readability over %Y-%m-%d which everyone can easily understand. Fun with non-Debian systems: imadev:~$ date +%F June imadev:~$ gdate +%F 2017-06-01 (%F is listed as "Obsolescent" on this system; the man page says to use %B instead. gdate is GNU date, compiled from sh-utils source long ago. Before it became part of GNU coreutils.)
