Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 09:26:50 +1100 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@hilink.com.au> To: Bill Fumerola <billf@jade.chc-chimes.com> Cc: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@hilink.com.au>, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: misc/9500: `edithook' is not Y2K compliant Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990116091834.17266B-100000@enya.clari.net.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990115124601.12026B-100000@jade.chc-chimes.com>
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On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Bill Fumerola wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Daniel O'Callaghan wrote:
>
> > This should really be
> >
> > $today = sprintf("%d/%02d/%02d", $year + 1900, $mon+1, $mday);
> >
> > ie. yyyy/mm/dd, not mm/dd/yyyy
> >
> > Any objections to changing the log date format thus?
>
> Yes. What is your foundation for the new format? Perhaps this is just my
> American citizenship coming through, but mm/dd/yyyy is the way most people
> read dates.
I'd like a definition of "most people", please. The only places where
mm/dd/yy is a valid date format are USA (260m), USA dependencies (.5m) and
confused Canadians ( some fraction of 26m). So your assertion becomes
that 286.5 million people is "most people". The rest of the English
speaking world, other parts of the British Commonwealth, European and
Hispanic worlds use either dd/mm/yy or yy/mm/dd. Japan uses yyyy/mm/dd; I
like to know how the Chinese write dates.
yyyy/mm/dd is not my personal way of reading dates, but at least it is
unambiguous.
I remember when I was travelling in Europe, an astonished American girl
said, "why do you write dates the wrong way? Don't you say, 'December
25th'?" My reply was, "No, I say '25th of December'".
Danny
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