Re: 2.1.6 install OK except for X
On Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 01:38:58PM -0800, Joel Klecker wrote:
> At 18:01 +0000 1999-02-05, Enrique Zanardi wrote:
> >On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 10:22:59AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> >> On Tue, 02 Feb 1999 21:36:44 +0000, Ian Redfern <redferni@logica.com> said:
> >> > 2) The boot disk date is 01/30/99 (on the release notes screen) -
> >> > could this be 1999-01-30 please, or at least have a four-digit year?
> >>
> >> Agree, it should.
> >
> >The date on the boot disk is the output of "date +%x", which in turn is
> >the output of strftime((out, out_length, "%x", time). %x outputs the
> >date using the proper format for the locale selected. For example, for
> >LANG=C it uses mm/dd/yy, for LANG=es it uses dd/mm/yy. As one of my goals
> >for slink was i18n, (there are several translations already), I'm not
> >quite happy with the idea of using a hardcoded format...
>
> Why not just use `date +%Y-%m-%d'? That's the format (YYYY-MM-DD) ISO
> 8601 specifies.
Yes, I've been told that, and I'm going to use it (nice standard
thing...).
Thanks,
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Enrique Zanardi ezanardi@ull.es
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