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Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution



On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 09:01:41PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> On 01/04/11 20:17, Lisi wrote:
> > On Friday 01 April 2011 10:05:54 Liam O'Toole wrote:
> >> On 2011-04-01, Freeman <hewho7@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> 04/01/11 !
> >>
> >> What does the 4th of January have to do with it??!!!!
> >
> > Perhaps on an international list we should say the month names as Liam has
> > here.  Otherwise one is playing guessing games to work out the upbringing of
> > any writer who uses an ambiguous form for the date.  In this case the context
> > made guessing easy, but that is rarely the case.
>
> The North American date format wasn't that hard to work out - though I
> suspect Liam is taking the p1ss (2 weeks late?).

For international mailing lists, if you stick with ISO 8601, there should
be no ambiguity in the date:

    2011-04-01 or 20110401 is defined as April 1, 2011, or truncated as
    11-04-01 or 110401.

Standards. Who would have thought?

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