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id='topmenunooverlap'> </div> <div id='topmenunooverlapbis'> </div> <p> You are not allowed to post comments on this tracker with your current authentication level.</p> <h1 class='priore'><i><a href="?23767">bug #23767</a></i>: ISO-8601 and "date"</h1> <form enctype="multipart/form-data" name="item_form" action="/bugs/index.php?23767" method="post"> <input type='hidden' name="form_id" value="88511dac71f932882ecdf663ba4ca913" /> <input type='hidden' name="group_id" value="2613" /> <input type='hidden' name="func" value="detailitem" /> <table cellpadding='0' width='100%'> <tr> <td class='preinput' width='15%'>Submitter: </td> <td width='35%'>None</td> <td colspan='2' width='50%' align='center' valign='top'><span class='noprint'><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit changes and browse items" class="bold" /> <input type="text" id="website" name="website" value="http://" /></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class='preinput' width='15%'>Submitted: </td> <td width='35%'>Fri 04 Jul 2008 10:11:38 PM UTC</td> <td colspan='2' width='50%' align='center' valign='top'><span class='noprint'><input type="submit" name="submitreturn" value="Submit changes and return to this item" /></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class='preinput' width='15%'>Votes:</td> <td width='35%'><a href='#votes'>253</a></td> <td colspan='2' width='50%' align='center' valign='top'><span class='noprint'><input type="submit" name="preview" value="Preview" /></span></td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr><td valign='middle' width='15%'><span class='preinput help' title="Generally high level modules or functionalities of the software (e.g. User interface, Configuration Manager, etc)">Category:</span> </td> <td valign='middle' width='35%'>None</td> <td valign='middle' width='15%'><span class='preinput help' title="Impact of the item on the system (Critical, Major,...)">Severity:</span> </td> <td valign='middle' width='35%'>3 - Normal</td> </tr> <tr class="boxitemalt"><td valign='middle' width='15%'><span 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id='discussion'><script type="text/javascript" src="/js/show-hide.php?deploy=1&legend=Discussion&box_id=hidsubpart&suffix=discussion"></script> <noscript> <a href="#discussion">Discussion</a> </noscript></h2> <div id="hidsubpartcontentdiscussion"> <table class='box'> <tr> </tr> <tr class="boxhighlight"><td valign='top'> <a id='comment0' href='#comment0' class='preinput'> Fri 04 Jul 2008 10:11:38 PM UTC, <b>original submission:</b> </a> <br /> <div class='tracker_comment'><p>Sorry if I'm being dense, this seems to be an issue that comes up with some regularity. <br /> <br /> The ISO 8601 format for date/time specifications is well-known;  in particular, it is described reasonably fully on wikipedia at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601</a>.  RFC 2822 and RFC 3339, by contrast, do not even have Wikipedia articles, not even stubs. <br /> <br /> It is also, I admit, the only reasonably compact format for specifying a time/date format that I know of.  "20080704T215923Z" is still somewhat human-readable, unlikely to be mistaken for a local time because the "T" and "Z" are exotic enough to stop people just making assumptions about how to interpret the string, the format allows alphabetic sorting ... <br /> <br /> In short, I don't see what's wrong with it and I'm interminably confused by the fact that it's not date's default format.  But it isn't even supported as an input format for -d!  There is an --iso-8601 option, but it's undocumented! <br /> <br /> What's up with this?  Is it some sort of politically motivated campaign?  If there actually were any harm in understanding, at least, the week-number-free "T"-separated date/time string with a "Z" suffix, shouldn't that at least be documented somewhere?<br /> </p> </div> </td> <td class="boxhighlightextra">Anonymous<img src="/images/Savannah.theme/roles/assignee.png" title="In charge of this item." alt="" border="0" width="24" height="24" /></td></tr> </table> <p> </p> 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