coreutils: bug in date --iso-8601={seconds,ns}?

[Johannes Truschnigg]

Dear GNU maintainer/team/email-dude,

in thre process of writing an Atom-feed-generator in bash, I discovered what 
MIGHT be a bug/documentation misinterpretation in GNU date's --iso-8601 
switch when invoked with "ns" or "seconds" as a parameter.

RFC3339 and some documents regarding ISO 8601 I could find on the web quickly 
seem to suggest that the time-offset component of the output should match the 
regex /\d\d:\d\d/; date, however, matches /\d\d\d\d/.

As said, I don't know if the actual ISO 8601 standard specifies that as fair 
game, as I don't know where I could take a look at it - but it might not harm 
investigating if you aren't completely sure about the correct behaviour 
either...

Anyway, thanks for taking the time and making coreutils available to us mere 
mortals in the first place - happy hacking! :-)

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