[Bug 1036604] Re: date documentation out of date

[C de-Avillez]

Thank you for opening this bug and helping make Ubuntu better.

This is not a bug: '--iso-8601' was deprecated and removed from
documentation in 2005; at the time coreutils was unable to correctly
parse ISO 8601 dates (meaning it could output it, but could not parse an
ISO 8601 date as input). This option was reinstated in 2011 (coreutils
8.15), after some changes that made parsing of ISO 8601 dates possible.

12.04 runs coreutils 8.13. As such, there is no documentation about '--
iso-8601' or '-I', as explained above. Closing invalid, working as
designed.

** Changed in: coreutils (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  date documentation out of date

Status in “coreutils” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  The version of date shipped with Ubuntu 12.04 has out-of-date
  documentation which does not document the --iso-8061 option.

  Steps to reproduce:
  1. man date
  2. /--iso-8061
  3. Actual: "Pattern not found". Expected: documentation on --iso-8061
  4. Press q to quit
  5. info date
  6. Follow link: "Options for date"
  7. /--iso-8061
  8: Actual: "Search failed". Expected: documentation on --iso-8061
  9. i--iso-8061
  10: Actual: No index entries containing `--iso-8061'. Expected: documentation on --iso-8061
  11: date --iso-8061
  12 Actual and expected: 2012-08-14

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: coreutils 8.13-3ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-29.46-generic 3.2.24
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-29-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu12
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Aug 14 19:17:17 2012
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110330)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_AU:en_US:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: coreutils
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-05-01 (105 days ago)

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