Re: Suggestions for date formats
On Sat, Aug 07, 1999 at 10:00:14AM -0400, Alexander Pennace wrote:
> 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.
Standards are good. Feel free to convert the pages to use this
format and generate the necessary scripts. If you are stuck for
time, or can't generate the scripts for some reason, just ask.
Jay Treacy
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