[PATCH] --timelimit and --stopat
Paul Slootman
paul at debian.org
Tue Apr 27 14:06:28 GMT 2004
On Tue 27 Apr 2004, Jon Jensen wrote:
>
> > --stop-at=YY-MM-DD at HH:MM
> > This option allows you to specify at what time to stop rsync, in
> > year-month-day at hour:minute numeric format (e.g. 04-12-3l at 23:59).
>
> Is there any reason to use a nonstandard date/time format like this? The
> ISO standard of YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm is widely used and is what I'd expect:
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime
>
> In any case 2-digit years without the century seem like a bad idea.
Chances are that you don't want rsync to stop more than a hunderd years
from now :-) Basically though, I agree.
Paul Slootman
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