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Re: Bug#798714: debian-policy: Please explicitly recommend punctuation between the year, month and day components of date based version numbers



On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 10:11:58PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Sep 2015 13:39:19 +0200, Wouter wrote in message 
> <[🔎] 20150926113919.GA16414@grep.be>:
> 
> > [mind CC change]
> > 
> > On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 02:09:22PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> > > (Along the same lines, I expect anything of the form XX/YY/ZZ to be
> > > a M/D/Y date until proven wrong because 99% of US dates are written
> > > that way.)
> > 
> > Then don't ever learn Dutch. XX/YY/ZZ is very much in use in
> > dutch-speaking areas, and refers to DMY dates.
> > 
> > . as a date separator is awful.
>  
> ..riiight, don't ever learn Norwegian.  ;o)  

or Italian!

or don't ever go to nearly every other country different than US :O

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