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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html