Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 21:44:29 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars calendar.freebsd Message-ID: <56150.1092167069@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Aug 2004 21:10:51 %2B0200." <20040810191051.GA68379@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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In message <20040810191051.GA68379@freebie.xs4all.nl>, Wilko Bulte writes: >On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 11:58:10PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote.. >> In message <20040809.150537.96131820.imp@bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" writes: >> >> >: At least DDMMYYYY is in increasing order of magnitude :-) >> >: >> >: MMDDYYYY is in no order at all. >> > >> >But YYYYMMDD is sortable w/o a special date type! >> >> Not to mention that it is trivially and unambigously extensible to arbitrary >> precision: >> >> YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.mmmuuunnnppp... > >I suppose you have the midwife consult your atomic clock for the exact >time of birth? I was not in a position to sufficiently communicate with the midwife at my birth, sorry. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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