Re: unexpected behaviour date (coreutils) 5.2.1

[Paul Eggert]

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.