Re: [PATCH] Documentation for iostats

[Mark Watts]

On Tuesday 20 May 2003 12:38 am, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> On Mon, 19 May 2003 16:01:33 -0700 Andrew Morton <[e-mail]> wrote:
> | "J.A. Magallon" <[e-mail]> 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....