Re: [PATCH] Documentation for iostats

Randy.Dunlap (rddunlap@osdl.org)
Mon, 19 May 2003 16:38:16 -0700


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)

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~Randy
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