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Re: Date format and ISO 8601



Hello Sven,
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 06:24:16PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> Am 13.04.2007 18:07 schrieb Helge Kreutzmann:
> > the first part of the patch I do not understand, but the second part
> > boils down to the change
> > 
> > 14-3-2007 => 2007-3-14
> > 
> > correct? 
> 
> Not quite, it is
> 
> 13.04.2007 => 2007-03-14
> 
> (look at the output of "date +%x" and "ls -l", respectively).

Sorry, this does not make sense, and I have to object this change.
Users need to be able to tell march 13th appart from march 14th. And I
can hardly believe an ISO norm to force this behaviour.

Greetings

             Helge

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