From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 5 21:13:22 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1615A16A469 for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2007 21:13:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EA5313C4A8 for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2007 21:13:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lA5KmXi6067420; Mon, 5 Nov 2007 14:48:34 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at daleco.biz Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ezekiel.daleco.biz [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id r3cwi7TIsQH6; Mon, 5 Nov 2007 14:48:25 -0600 (CST) Received: from archangel.daleco.biz (dsl.daleco.biz [209.125.108.70]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lA5KmNIF067416; Mon, 5 Nov 2007 14:48:23 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <472F8191.80704@daleco.biz> Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:48:17 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070418 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: deeptech71@gmail.com References: <472E2737.1020509@gmail.com> <200711041506.53690.josh@tcbug.org> <472E3F27.4010007@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <472E3F27.4010007@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:13:22 -0000 deeptech71@gmail.com wrote: > Josh Paetzel wrote: >> On Sunday 04 November 2007 14:10:31 deeptech71@gmail.com wrote: >>> What does it take to transition to the international standard for >>> representing times? >>> >>> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html >> >> alias date to date +%Y-%m-%d I suppose. >> >> In reality how difficult it is for you to transition to using the >> international standard for representing times depends on how much >> software you have that you need to migrate to it and how difficult >> interoperability will be with systems you don't control. >> > > If UNIX, BSDs, Sun, Apple, Microsoft, etc. all agreed to represent times > using the standard, and rewrite all config files to use that notation, > whatsoever... ? "What's a 'config file', which department thought that one up, and what is marketing doing to get ready for its release? And, are you actually discussing this before we get a patent?" --- attributed to Steve Ballmer, November 2007 ;-) Kevin Kinsey -- The pollution's at that awkward stage. Too thick to navigate and too thin to cultivate. -- Doug Sneyd