Re: Adding Date & Time to a script's output log
On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 06:49:58PM +0000, davidson@freevolt.org wrote:
> If you go this convenient-lexical-order route, note that %F is
> shorthand for %Y-%m-%d
Not portable. See
<http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/date.html>
And yeah, this is a Debian mailing list, but there's no compelling
reason to use an obtuse %F option that you'd have to rewrite for other
systems when it doesn't increase readability over %Y-%m-%d which
everyone can easily understand.
Fun with non-Debian systems:
imadev:~$ date +%F
June
imadev:~$ gdate +%F
2017-06-01
(%F is listed as "Obsolescent" on this system; the man page says to use
%B instead. gdate is GNU date, compiled from sh-utils source long ago.
Before it became part of GNU coreutils.)
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