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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2005-09-13 22:07:34 +0000
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2005-09-13 22:07:34 +0000
commita6a9495c14f979637eba0f1df30e8801863cb2bf (patch)
tree6ceadabfa84095a15b5fd69744bffeb55a18cf29 /NEWS
parent2859e85770b8e280a534719b523ed190ccf99f09 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-a6a9495c14f979637eba0f1df30e8801863cb2bf.tar.xz
date has a new --rfc-3339 option, and the old --iso-8601
option is deprecated. date and ls also have new time format specifiers %:z, %::z, %:::z.
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@@ -182,6 +182,11 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
cp and mv: the --reply=X option is deprecated
+ date accepts the new option --rfc-3339=TIMESPEC. The old --iso-8602 (-I)
+ option is deprecated; it still works, but new applications should avoid it.
+ date and ls's time formats now support new %:z, %::z, %:::z specifiers
+ for numeric time zone offsets like -07:00, -07:00:00, and -07.
+
dd has new iflag= and oflag= flags "binary" and "text", which have an
effect only on nonstandard platforms that distinguish text from binary I/O.