> Using Lenny? -- the '-I' will be gone soon. It is not even in Squeeze's
> man page now.
Yes lenny, it's disappeared from the man page already, and in fact
it's not in etch's man page either.
I wasn't aware of this bug but it has been reported 4 years ago!
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo
Quoting Clive Standbridge on 2010-01-16 15:31:19:
> How about
> date -I
> date -Iseconds
>
> Sortable, readable, parseable and standard to boot.
Wow, thanks for that Clive. Easier to remember, too. I just tried it in
a shell one-liner, and I used a bit less logic to parse it than other
me
> > I suggest that you change the way you get the numbers so that they
> > are
> > both human readable and parsable by simple code. I like date
> > +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S
>
> +%F_%T is what I use when spaces aren't desirable in dates. See my
> quoting line for a slightly modified example of it. From my
>
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