The standard format for @var{time} is:
@example
-@var{YYYY}-@var{MM}-@var{DD}T@var{hh}:@var{mm}:@var{SS}[.@var{frac}][Z]
+@var{yyyy}-@var{mm}-@var{dd}T@var{hh}:@var{mm}:@var{ss}[.@var{frac}][Z]
@end example
giving the year, month, day, hours, minutes, seconds,
along with optional fractional seconds and trailing
letter @samp{Z} denoting UTC rather than local time;
-also, @samp{,} can separate @var{SS} from @var{frac} instead of @samp{.}.
-@var{YYYY} must have at least four digits;
+also, @samp{,} can separate @var{ss} from @var{frac} instead of @samp{.}.
+@var{yyyy} must have at least four digits;
@var{frac}, if present, must have at least one digit;
and the other numbers must have exactly two digits
and must be in their usual ranges.
-GNU @command{touch} allows @var{SS} to be 60 only for a leap second
+GNU @command{touch} allows @var{ss} to be 60 only for a leap second
on the rare non-POSIX platforms where @code{time_t} counts leap seconds.
As a GNU extension, @var{time} can use a space rather than @samp{T},