a human-eye date format everyone can love

If saving space is a big concern, a few characters could be saved by
omitting the -'s and the :'s.

Something like

$ date +'%Y%m%dT%H%M%S%z'
20020625T030551-0700

Would be the most compact ISO 8601 way to tell the time right now in
my timezone, I believe. But not all that readable.

Bending the rules slightly and substituting the T with a space helps
quite a bit.

$ date +'%Y%m%d %H%M%S%z'
20020625 030710-0700

But I doubt it's worth saving 4 characters for. :)

$ date +'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S%z'
2002-06-25 03:08:33-0700

Specifying the timezone as a two digit number is valid, if I am not
mistaken, but I agree with the earlier participants in this round of
bikeshedding ( :-) ) that it makes it significantly harder to read.

If the timezone is UTC, it might make sense to print that as

$ date +'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%SZ'
2002-06-25 03:09:59Z

Thanks for listening. :)

 - ask (who thinks having just the weekday in the second part would
        be just fine)

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