Combined date and time of day items (GNU tar 1.34)

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### 7.5 Combined date and time of day items

The ISO 8601 date and time of day extended format consists of an ISO 8601 date, a ‘`T`’ character separator, and an ISO 8601 time of day. This format is also recognized if the ‘`T`’ is replaced by a space.

In this format, the time of day should use 24-hour notation. Fractional seconds are allowed, with either comma or period preceding the fraction. ISO 8601 fractional minutes and hours are not supported. Typically, hosts support nanosecond timestamp resolution; excess precision is silently discarded.

Here are some examples:

    2012-09-24T20:02:00.052-05:00
    2012-12-31T23:59:59,999999999+11:00
    1970-01-01 00:00Z