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Date:      Sat, 16 Jan 1999 14:01:38 +0000
From:      Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk>
To:        Zach Heilig <zach@uffdaonline.net>
Cc:        Bill Fumerola <billf@jade.chc-chimes.com>, "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@hilink.com.au>, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: misc/9500: `edithook' is not Y2K compliant
Message-ID:  <l03020901b2c64b00a51f@[194.32.164.2]>
In-Reply-To: <19990115190308.A18409@znh.org>
References:   <Pine.BSF.3.96.990115173619.18735A-100000@jade.chc-chimes.com>; from Bill Fumerola on Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 05:40:28PM -0500 <Pine.BSF.3.96.990116091834.17266B-100000@enya.clari.net.au> <Pine.BSF.3.96.990115173619.18735A-100000@jade.chc-chimes.com>

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At 7:03 pm -0600 15/1/99, Zach Heilig wrote:
>[...]
>yyyy/mm/dd is really the most computer friendly format (a simple sort
>will properly order dates).  FreeBSD -SNAPS are named this way.  It
>seems to be the most popular date format when dealing with computers
>(I notice it just about everywhere).  I've also seen a similar format
>used around town at more than one business (1999 Jan 15, for example).

The [yy]yy mm dd order is also blessed by ISO 2014-1976, with the caveat
that two-digit year should be used only "where no possible confusion can
arise from the omission of the century".


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