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		jbarber on Nov 21, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What's the one Linux command you wish you knew yea... I like to use (for GNU date at least): $ date -Iseconds 2011-11-21T10:56:17+0000 because it requires less typing. The ISO 8601 standard format. -Is, -Im, -Ih, and -Id allow you to change the displayed resolution. Bizarrely, this doesn't seem to be documented in my version of date (coreutils 8.10).

dredmorbius on Nov 21, 2011 [–]

A lot of the date documentation is unfortunately in info only. Debian (and derived distros) do a good job of updating the manpages.

That said, I can't find "-I" documented anywhere.

What I like about the timestamp I use is that it's semantic but sorts lexically as well. Though yours does as well. Hrm.

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