No Go Lenovo

David Kramer david at thekramers.net
Thu May 10 07:50:32 EDT 2007


Martin Owens wrote:
> Those dates don't make sense, April 2012, May 2008 and June 2004.
> 
> Could we try and stick to ISO date formats please, if you'd had put
> the year in at the start it would have worked too. otherwise print
> month names is also readable.

There's zed chance of that happening on a regular basis on this list ;)

That's just kinda what we do here.  DD/MM or MM/DD is akin to the endian
debate.  Whenever I put a date in a filename, I use YY[YY]MMDD, but when
talking to local humans, in this locale we write MM/DD.

Yes, it's ambiguous, but so is about 40% of what humans do,

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