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Re: Suggestions for date formats



On Sat, Aug 07, 1999 at 03:25:27PM +0200, peter karlsson wrote:
> It would be nice if the dates that are used in the news and security
> bulletins are stored in some "language independent" way in the files, so
> that when a new bulletin which isn't yet translated shows up on a translated
> index file, the date shows up in the native format, not in the English.
> 
> IMHO, it looks kind of weird to find things like this:
> 
>    [6 Aug 1999] cfingerd         (not translated)
>    [1999-07-31] Samba            (translated)
>    [1999-06-23] mailman          (translated)

Agreed. And automatically parsing dates for local translation would be
easier in the ISO standard: YYYY-MM-DD. It's also very easy to sort
chronologically in that format.

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