Re: [BackupPC-users] Date not in standard format

[Kyle A. <am...@gn...>]

Sounds right to me. :-)

-- Kyle

Thus Spake Erminio [Fri, 19 Apr 2002 02:51:33 -0700 (PDT)]

> Dear BackupPC-er,
> 
> this is my first post to this mailing list. I am
> trying out BackupPC, because I think that it is a very
> good and cute system. Thank to the author and all
> contributors.
> 
> My initial setup: FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE as server and as
> client (just one box), perl v5.6.1, tar (GNU tar)
> version 1.13.25, BackupPC version 1.4.0.
> 
> In this first post (others will follow) I will mention
> a problem with the date format.
> 
> In Lib.pm line 115ss, sub timeStamp, the date is
> defined as $year/$mon/$mday. My gnutar complains and
> does not accept this definition, because of course
> this in not the standard format from ISO (ISO 8601)
> and from W3C (http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime)
> which both mandate the format YYYY-MM-DD.
> 
> I think the line 122
> 
> return "$year/$mon/$mday " . sprintf("%02d:%02d:%02d",
> $hour, $min, $sec)
> 
> should be replaced with the line
> 
> return sprintf("%04d-%02d-%02d", $year, $mon, $day).'
> '. sprintf("%02d:%02d:%02d", $hour, $min, $sec)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Erminio
> 
> 
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