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Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution (howto write the date)



On 04/02/2011 12:18 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote:
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)??


I don't understand your question.


OpenVMS does it one of the two Right Ways

There's two "right" ways?? :-)


I know you're trying to be funny, but sure: there's usually more than one way to skin a cat. In this case, the other Right Way (or should I say Ways) are ISO 8601.

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




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