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date +"%Y-%m-%d%t%H:%M:%S"
Should be the default.
@Diptchip Why the tab though?
@pro do you suggest a space? Just seemed like a logical divider and I don't like using multiple spaces...
@Diptchip Yes, I think the space is better where humans can see it. Tab may be suitable for computer-parsed data, a CSV with tab replacing commas, for example. Even then, imagine a possibility of getting the tab-containing date string getting into a tab-separated output of a script.
@Diptchip Well:
% LC_TIME=en_DK.UTF-8 date
2021-09-28T04:24:40 CEST
% LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 date
Tue 28 Sep 2021 04:24:43 AM CEST
% LC_TIME=C.UTF-8 date
Tue Sep 28 04:28:31 2021
With glibc’s locales and my own version of date(1) which uses +%c as default, as how things should be. (screw POSIX for writing that +%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Z %Y should be the default)
