Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:48:17 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: deeptech71@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss Message-ID: <472F8191.80704@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <472E3F27.4010007@gmail.com> References: <472E2737.1020509@gmail.com> <200711041506.53690.josh@tcbug.org> <472E3F27.4010007@gmail.com>
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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
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