date and ISO-8601

[Allan Clark]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 17:32, Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux at googlemail.com>wrote:

> On Thursday 25 September 2008 19:09, Piotr Grudzinski wrote:
> > Here are some problems with the date applet and ISO-8601 as of BB 1.12.1
> >
> > 1. Colon separator - use it (extended format) or not (basic format). BB
> seems to mix both:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > There is a missing colon in -0500 (the difference between local time and
> UTC).
>
> coreutils does this:
>
> bash-3.2# /usr/bin/date --version
> date (GNU coreutils) 6.9
> [...]
>
> bash-3.2# /usr/bin/date -Iseconds
> 2008-11-25T23:27:25+0100
>
> [...]
>
> so it seems to be not such a big problem as of now.


That's the "works great in IE6" defense for non-compliant web content.  Is
it more important to mimick another's mistake, or do the right thing?  (yes,
both answers can be argued)
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