Re: Forcing long-iso date format

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

On 07/24/16 20:00, Graham Percival wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 05:20:41PM -0400, James Cass wrote:
>>    Is there a way to force long-iso date format when retrieving a file list
>>    from the Tarsnap server?  By long-iso date format, I mean: yyyy-mm-dd
>>    hh:mm:ss.  I didn't see anything in the man page, unless I overlooked it.
> 
> If you add -v, then you get the date in %F %T format, which I believe is what
> you want:
> 
> $ tarsnap --list-archives -v
> gin-2016-05-01_10-44-17	2016-05-01 10:44:17
> gin-2016-05-01_10-42-50	2016-05-01 10:42:50

I think James was talking about `tarsnap -t`, not --list-archives.  In which
case the answer is no; tarsnap reproduces the traditional behaviour of tar,
which sadly dates back to a time before people paid attention to such things
as readily parsable date/time strings.

But it should be easy to add an option for this... anyone want to suggest a
name?  Maybe --iso-dates?

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Colin Percival
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