From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 15:27:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 15:26:55 -0400 Received: from grobbebol.xs4all.nl ([194.109.248.218]:50008 "EHLO grobbebol.xs4all.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 15:26:44 -0400 Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:26:47 +0000 From: "Roeland Th. Jansen" To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Wireless Extension update Message-ID: <20011015192647.A1769@grobbebol.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <3BC3243A.D3B48880@osdlab.org> <9qd9cp$977$1@cesium.transmeta.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.16i In-Reply-To: <9qd9cp$977$1@cesium.transmeta.com>; from hpa@zytor.com on Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 05:07:53PM -0700 X-OS: Linux grobbebol 2.4.10 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 05:07:53PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > YYYY-MM-DD is also unambiguous, and has the nice properties of being > (a) sortable and (b) language-independent. it only is unambiguous if you happen to know the format beforehand. 20011001 is ? 10 oct 2001 ? 01 jan 2001 ? for the fun : it's a known practise in aircraft complaint handling that there should be a definition written at the place where complaints are signed off. if there is no such thing, we always have to revert to the unambigous dd-mmm-yyyy where the mmm is the three letter code for the month. -- Grobbebol's Home | Don't give in to spammers. -o) http://www.xs4all.nl/~bengel | Use your real e-mail address /\ Linux 2.4.10 (apic) SMP 466MHz/768 MB | on Usenet. _\_v