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Re: Date formats on debian.org



On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 10:30:23PM +0100, Tobias Conradi wrote:
> distrowatch.com - YYYY-MM-DD
> kernel.org - YYYY-MM-DD

I guess you mean this as rationale.
 
> http://www.xkcd.com/1179/


These are current practices:

> http://www.debian.org/
> News
> [20 Oct 2014]
> 
> Security Advisories
> [11 Nov 2014]

European style.
 
> Last Modified: Wed, Apr 30 15:29:40 UTC 2014
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=670775
> Sat, 28 Apr 2012 20:48:01 UTC
> Last modified: Fri Nov 14 21:25:19 2014

Standard US style.
 
> Proposal
> Change date in sections News and Security to YYYY-MM-DD.
> Change date-time to YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss UTC.

FYI;
We in Asia like this way since we tend to use this format following the
Chinese date recording order tradition.  So no objection.

Osamu


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