Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 00:40:09 +0100 From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> To: current@freebsd.org, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ulrich_Sp=F6rlein?= <uqs@spoerlein.net> Cc: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> Subject: Re: RFC regarding usage of ISO 8601 throughout the tree Message-ID: <4D250159.30108@quip.cz> In-Reply-To: <20110105194748.GS23329@acme.spoerlein.net> References: <20110105132155.GO23329@acme.spoerlein.net> <201101051800.p05I0V7k002583@fire.js.berklix.net> <20110105194748.GS23329@acme.spoerlein.net>
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Ulrich Spörlein wrote: > On Wed, 05.01.2011 at 19:00:31 +0100, Julian H. Stacey wrote: >> Ulrich =?utf-8?B?U3DDtnJsZWlu?= 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 >> >> I guess& hope you mean you like linear decreasing order but >> dislike '/' as a delimeter& want to swap from '/' to '-' as in ISO ? > > Exactly. > >>> this almost looks like ISO 8601, but is an unreadable variant of it, I >>> would like to aggressively change this throughout the tree. >>> >>> I'd like to start with minor stuff like share/misc/*.dot. Then probably >>> src/UPDATING, and ports/UPDATING after I've identified the consumers of >>> these docs. >> >> Do you mean you would like to swap eg src/UPDATING 20100720 to eg >> 2010-07-20 ? That would be more readable. > > Yes, I think for lists of dates like in UPDATING or automatically > generated date output like syslogd, the ISO8601 format only has > advantages. I am using ISO8601 date + time format for years in my scripts, logs etc., so it would be nice to have it on all places of FreeBSD as a standard format. I think 2010-07-20 is really readable than 20100720 or 2010/07/20 and "2011-01-06 00:03:50" is better than "Jan 6 00:03:50" (in logs) +1 Miroslav Lachman
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