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by yawaramin 1105 days ago
Use `date -u -Iseconds`, please ;-)
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    date: illegal option -- I
    usage: date [-jnRu] [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t west] [-v[+|-]val[ymwdHMS]] ... 
                [-f fmt date | [[[mm]dd]HH]MM[[cc]yy][.ss]] [+format]
Let me guess, you are on a Mac.
Probably on an older Mac or FreeBSD. On my macOS 12.6, `man date` says:

    The -I flag was added in FreeBSD 12.0.
Yup. macOS Catalina