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diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 7b37f60e1..92331945b 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -14262,6 +14262,34 @@ input. This is useful when you have many dates to process, because the system overhead of starting up the @command{date} executable many times can be considerable. +@item -I[@var{timespec}] +@itemx --iso-8601[=@var{timespec}] +@opindex -I[@var{timespec}] +@opindex --iso-8601[=@var{timespec}] +Display the date using the @acronym{ISO} 8601 format, @samp{%Y-%m-%d}. + +The argument @var{timespec} specifies the number of additional +terms of the time to include. It can be one of the following: +@table @samp +@item auto +Print just the date. This is the default if @var{timespec} is omitted. + +@item hours +Append the hour of the day to the date. + +@item minutes +Append the hours and minutes. + +@item seconds +Append the hours, minutes and seconds. + +@item ns +Append the hours, minutes, seconds and nanoseconds. +@end table + +If showing any time terms, then include the time zone using the format +@samp{%z}. + @item -r @var{file} @itemx --reference=@var{file} @opindex -r |