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From: "Riley Williams" <Riley@Williams.Name>
To: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>, "Andrew Morton" <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: <jamagallon@able.es>, <ricklind@us.ibm.com>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <lm@bitmover.com>,
	<cs@tequila.co.jp>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] Documentation for iostats
Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 08:57:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BKEGKPICNAKILKJKMHCAOECEDBAA.Riley@Williams.Name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030519163816.66489368.rddunlap@osdl.org>

Hi Randy.

 > 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)

The above is just plain wrong...

05/15/2003  - US style
15/05/2003  - European style
2003/05/15  - Japanese numeric style

2003-May-15 - Japanese text style
15-May-2003 - UK style
2003-05-15  - ISO style

Personally, I find any of the last group to be perfectly readable,
but find the first group (especially the first two) plain confusing.

Best wishes from Riley.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-05-20  7:44 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 [this message]
2003-05-20 18:02         ` Mark Watts
2003-05-19 23:06     ` Florin Iucha

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