From: Mark Watts <m.watts@mrw.demon.co.uk>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation for iostats
Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 19:02:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200305201902.00582.m.watts@mrw.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030519163816.66489368.rddunlap@osdl.org>
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....
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-20 17:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-19 21:18 Rick Lindsley
2003-05-19 22:48 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-19 22:55 ` J.A. Magallon
2003-05-19 22:55 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-05-19 23:01 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-19 23:38 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-05-19 23:50 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-05-19 23:59 ` Rick Lindsley
2003-05-20 7:57 ` Riley Williams
2003-05-20 18:02 ` Mark Watts [this message]
2003-05-19 23:06 ` Florin Iucha
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