Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 17:42:20 -0800 From: Rob Farmer <rfarmer@predatorlabs.net> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC regarding usage of ISO 8601 throughout the tree Message-ID: <AANLkTim0B0fftL6xrHAOjXSMMM1Rt0i6ensb633rexG7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110105132155.GO23329@acme.spoerlein.net> References: <20110105132155.GO23329@acme.spoerlein.net>
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On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 05:21, Ulrich Sp=F6rlein <uqs@spoerlein.net> wrote: > !ACHTUNG BIKESHED ALERT! > > Hello, > > With the recent changes to the committer graphs, I again was reminded > how much I hate the YYYY/MM/DD format (I can't help it ...). Given that > this almost looks like ISO 8601, but is an unreadable variant of it, I > would like to aggressively change this throughout the tree. > The current format is ISO 8601 compliant, because it allows omitting the hyphen for compactness in computer files that may be automatically processed. Also, adding the hyphen is a bit confusing, because many common (non-compliant) date systems use hyphens or slashes with the components in different orders. Omitting it is non-intuitive to everyone and thus least likely to cause confusion due to local assumptions in cases like 2001-01-02. --=20 Rob Farmer
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