Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution (howto write the date)
On 02/04/11 15:40, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 04/01/2011 11:17 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote:
>> On 02/04/11 14:57, Kelly Clowers wrote:
>>> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 20:23, Scott Ferguson
> [snip]
>>>>
>>>> Why not use the Debian standard??
>>>> day-of-week, dd month yyyy hh:mm:ss +zzzz
>>>
>>> Too verbose, not sortable
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Kelly Clowers
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> So...
>> the RFC standards for internet communication is not good enough?
>> or the Debian Policy standard
>> or the standard of *this* mailing list:-
>> (eg. as used in
>> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/04/msg00141.html)
>>
>> And *you* can't sort the in-place standards?
>>
>> Let me guess - do you also use the imperial measurement system?
>> Did someone mention Cultural Imperialism earlier?
>> ;-p
>
> I've always thought that Unix Time is *incredibly stupid* (who the heck
> says "Fri Apr 1 23:27:41 CDT 2011"?) and *monumentally shortsighted*
> (did nothing happen before 01-Jan-1970?).
Um, apropos of what (Unix time)??
>
> OpenVMS does it one of the two Right Ways
There's two "right" ways?? :-)
> of displaying time
> (01-Apr-2011 23:27:41)
Which *is* RFC 2822....
> and has an epoch date of 17-NOV-1858 00:00:00.00
> (modified Julian date adopted by the Smithsonian Astrophysical
> Observatory for satellite tracking) and keeps time in a signed 64 bit
> integer using 100ns resolution).
>
Interesting...
Cheers
--
I don't see it that way, Geoff.
I think we're dealing with...
...a potentially positive
learning experience that can--
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