Bug#2475: at' uses middle-endian 2-digit-year date format

[Buddha Buck <phaedrus@zaphod.caz.ny.us>]

> Package: at
> Version:
>
> -chiark:~> at -l
> Date                    Owner   Queue   Job#
> 21:00:00 03/17/96       ian     c       11
> 21:00:00 03/18/96       ian     c       12
> -chiark:~>
>
> The dates should be formatted something like one of:
>  21:00:00 17.03.1996       (European little-endian format)
>  21:00:00 17 Mar 1996      (Little-endian with textual month)
>  21:00:00 1996-03-17       (ISO standard big-endian)

This is wrong.  ISO standard big-endian would be:

   1996-03-17 21:00:00

>  21:00:00 1996 Mar 17      (Big-endian with textual month)
>  17 Mar 1996 21:00:00      (Little-endian with textual month, RFC822)
>
> Note that the year should be displayed in 4 digits, and that
> middle-endian dates are silly and confusing especially when displayed
> numerically.
>
> Ian.
>
> PS: Yes, I know that some Americans write dates in middle-endian
> format.  More fools they ! :-)

True, but some of at least TRY to use a a sensible date order.  I use
either ISO standard or what's listed above as RFC822.

I would vote for the ISO standard for the corrected at myself
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     Buddha Buck                   phaedrus@future.dreamscape.com
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