[Buildroot] [PATCH] support/download/svn: fix date format for archive creation

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Mon Feb 22 20:14:07 UTC 2021


Arnout,All,

I was rushing for dinner, so forgot to properly complete my mail before
sending it; here's a complement...

On 2021-02-22 19:28 +0100, Yann E. MORIN spake thusly:
> On 2021-02-22 11:58 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle spake thusly:
> > On 20/02/2021 10:51, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > > On 2021-02-19 15:21 -0600, Vincent Fazio spake thusly:
> > >> Now the returned date is massaged to drop the sub-seconds.
> [--SNIP--]
> > A much simpler solution is
> > date="$( date -d "${date}" -u +%Y-%m-%dT%T%:z )"
> > which is fully portable over any POSIX-compliant version of date.
[--SNIP--]
> Eventually, I've settled for: 

... for: +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S+00:00

> Actually, sub-second precision *is* allowed by ISO8601. [...]

And so, I still think it is better to have that clamping in the helper.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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