From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Jan 15 14:27:14 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA24181 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 14:27:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from enya.clari.net.au (enya.clari.net.au [203.8.14.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA24172 for ; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 14:27:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from danny@enya.clari.net.au) Received: from localhost (danny@localhost) by enya.clari.net.au (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id JAA07653; Sat, 16 Jan 1999 09:26:50 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from danny@enya.clari.net.au) Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 09:26:50 +1100 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" To: Bill Fumerola cc: "Daniel O'Callaghan" , freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: misc/9500: `edithook' is not Y2K compliant In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message