Re: formatting of the Changelog subject line [Re: Dia ChangeLog report for Sat Jul 17 07:23:01 2004 (UTC)]
From: "W. Borgert" <debacle debian org>
To: discussions about usage and development of dia <dia-list gnome org>, "James K. Lowden" <jklowden schemamania org>
Cc:
Subject: Re: formatting of the Changelog subject line [Re: Dia ChangeLog report for Sat Jul 17 07:23:01 2004 (UTC)]
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 10:50:16 +0200
Quoting "James K. Lowden" <jklowden schemamania org>:
> Please, no! It's bad enough unixheads 35 years ago decided to tack on the
> year after the time (mustn't disturb precedent), and that every country
> has at least one way to format the date. Let's not invent something when
> there's so much to choose from!
The international standard ISO 8601 recommends: 2004-07-22 (try
'date -I' or 'date --iso-8601'). It's also "mathematically correct" :-)
Cheers, WB