Re: date not parsing full iso-8601

[Paul Eggert]

>> The `T' is optional according to the standard
>> 
>> It is?  As far as I can tell, it's required.
>
> Note that I haven't read the actual standards document. But if that is the
> case, then how can the following be valid formats according to Markus Kuhn's
> document (which w3.org links to, btw)?

Because Markus Kuhn doesn't like the "T" either.  I don't know of
anybody who likes the "T" for output that is intended to be
human-readable.  However, I believe "T" (or "t") is required by ISO
8601, for the representation of the date and time in a single output.
See, for example, <http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/iso8601.html>.

>> So, for example:
>> 
>> $ date -i
>> 2005-07-22 09:13:17.959906-07:00
>
> Good plan, I like this. Thanks Paul.

You're welcome.  I'd also like to hear Jim Meyering's opinion, though,
before proceeding.

I should mention that the command:

  date -d `date -i`

should work under this proposal, without any changes to the
date-parsing code executed by date -d.  That's one reason I'm
proposing this.