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<li><em>To</em>: Thomas Lockhart <<A HREF="mailto:lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu">lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu</A>>, <A HREF="mailto:ldp-discuss@lists.debian.org">ldp-discuss@lists.debian.org</A></li>
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<li><em>Subject</em>: Re: date formats</li>
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<li><em>From</em>: "Greg Ferguson" <<A HREF="mailto:gferg@hoop.timonium.sgi.com">gferg@hoop.timonium.sgi.com</A>></li>
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<li><em>Date</em>: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 11:19:37 -0500</li>
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<li><em>Cc</em>: David Merrill <<A HREF="mailto:dmerrill@lupercalia.net">dmerrill@lupercalia.net</A>>, ldp-discuss <<A HREF="mailto:ldp-discuss@lists.linuxdoc.org">ldp-discuss@lists.linuxdoc.org</A>></li>
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<li><em>In-reply-to</em>: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu> "Re: date formats" (Dec 7, 4:40pm)</li>
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On Dec 7, 4:40pm, Thomas Lockhart wrote:
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> Subject: Re: date formats
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> > As long as we are assured it's YYYY-MM-DD and not YYYY-DD-MM.
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> > I'd advocate using "DD MMM YYYY", where MMM = {Jan, Feb, etc};
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> > no descrepency or confusion.
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> Hmm. YYYY-MM-DD is defined as a date standard in ISO8601. Every other
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> convention has strong regional usage or language variants which may make
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> them less suitable for world-class docs.
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> The whole dust up over Y2K probably raised people's awareness of the
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> yyyy-mm-dd convention (which was not generally used in everyday
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> situations in the US, for example) and it should cause no confusion.
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Yes, you (and David) are correct. Sorry for the confusion.
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YYYY-MM-DD appears to be the correct date format for us to use.
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r,
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Greg Ferguson - s/w engr / mtlhd | gferg at sgi.com
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Linux Doc Project - <A HREF="http://www.linuxdoc.org/">http://www.linuxdoc.org/</A> | gferg at metalab.unc.edu
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<li><strong><a name="04593" href="msg04593.html">date formats</a></strong>
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<ul><li><em>From:</em> David Merrill <dmerrill@lupercalia.net></li></ul></li>
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<li><strong><a name="04594" href="msg04594.html">Re: date formats</a></strong>
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<ul><li><em>From:</em> "Greg Ferguson" <gferg@hoop.timonium.sgi.com></li></ul></li>
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