From: Oliver Busch Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 13:19:11 GMT Subject: Re: Bug report: Author/Commit date in ISO 8601 format Message-ID: <53FC894F.9060402@arc-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <20140826130610.GG29180@peff.net> PS: As far as I understand it, there is no "optionality" of the "T" as an indicator for the start of the time part. Am 26.08.2014 um 15:06 schrieb Jeff King: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 09:29:44AM +0200, Oliver Busch wrote: > >> I encountered the following problem: When using the date formatting option >> ISO (either by setting --date=iso or using format:%ci for the committer >> date), the output is formatted like this: >> >> 2014-08-25 17:49:43 +0200 >> >> But according to ISO 8601, should be formatted like this (see >> http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime): >> >> 2014-08-25T17:49:43+02:00 > Yeah, it is not strictly ISO but more ISO-like (to further add > confusion, it is mostly RFC3339, which claims to be a "profile of > ISO8601". But we don't follow the timezone conventions there. Yeesh). > > Interestingly, this actually came up when the feature was added: > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/52414/focus=52585 > > but there was some discussion of ISO8601's weird phrasing of "T" being > optional. > >> I therefore suggest to adapt the output when using --date=iso or >> format:%ci to comply 100% with the ISO 8601 specs, or at least change >> documentation to say the output is only "ISO-like". > I think changing the output at this point would cause backwards > compatibility problems (not to mention that it's a lot less readable for > humans). > > Patches welcome for a documentation update. I also think something like > --date=iso8601-strict might make sense for the case of feeding the > result to another parser. > > -Peff > -- Oliver Busch, M.Eng. Airport Research Center GmbH Bismarckstraße 61 52066 Aachen Germany Phone: +49 241 16843-161 Fax: +49 241 16843-19 e-mail: Oliver.Busch@arc-aachen.de Website: http://www.airport-consultants.com Register Court: Amtsgericht Aachen HRB 7313 Ust-Id-No.: DE196450052 Managing Directors: Dipl.-Ing. Tom Alexander Heuer