Messages in this thread | | | From | Mark Watts <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Documentation for iostats | Date | Tue, 20 May 2003 19:02:00 +0100 |
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On Tuesday 20 May 2003 12:38 am, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > On Mon, 19 May 2003 16:01:33 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com> wrote: > | "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es> wrote: > | > > Pet peeve number 4,592: There is no fifteenth month. > | > > | > How about using ISO dates to avoid this confussions ? > | > Last modified: 20030515 > | > | Still hurts my brain. I like "15 May 2003". > > I think you should just get over it. :) > > There are 3 widely-used date formats, but only one standard one. > > 05/15/2003 (US et al order; the worst of the 3 IMO :) > 15/05/2003 (or your 15 May 2003) > 2003/05/15 (ISO standard)
/me points out that 15/05/2003 is in a nice ascending order (day, month, year) so you dont increment things out of order... Anyway, whats wrong with using the number of seconds since.... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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