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Re: unexpected behaviour date (coreutils) 5.2.1
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: unexpected behaviour date (coreutils) 5.2.1 |
Date: |
Mon, 24 Jan 2005 16:53:10 -0800 |
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Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
Alex van den Bogaerdt <address@hidden> writes:
> Further experimenting shows the letter is considered to be
> a timezone or something alike. However, a properly formatted
> ISO8601 timestamp must have the "T" between date and time
> (AFAIK) so the current behaviour seems to be wrong.
What we have here is two competing standards, and one of them has to
give way. Alas, the military-timezone standard is the one that GNU
"date" has supported for ages, so there is a backward-compatibility
issue. It's on the list of things to do but it's not as trivial as
one might think.