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Re: [SLE] Installing 10.2 beta 1: read this BEFORE installing
- From: James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2006 20:15:18 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <454CF4CE.7060307@xxxxxxxxxx>
Darryl Gregorash wrote:
> On 01/11/06 09:05, Felix Miata wrote:
>> On 06/11/01 14:42 (GMT+0100) Anders Johansson apparently typed:
>>
>>
>>> ps. date formats are icky. Does that mean December 11 or November 12? In
>>> future, please write it out, it's not even a common format in the English
>>> speaking world, let alone the rest of the world, so on a list like this,
>>> confusion is dominant
>>>
>> Writing out isn't necessary if you use the ISO 8601 format, which is like
>> writing ordinary numbers, with most significant digits to the left.
>> 2005.11.12
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format#yyyy-mm-dd_.28year.2C_month.2C_day.29_-_the_ISO_8601_standard
>>
> You have no idea of the confusion I cause here when I write a date in
> this format. However, I am slowly educating the masses :-)
I thought ISO 8601 required hyphens, not periods.
> On 01/11/06 09:05, Felix Miata wrote:
>> On 06/11/01 14:42 (GMT+0100) Anders Johansson apparently typed:
>>
>>
>>> ps. date formats are icky. Does that mean December 11 or November 12? In
>>> future, please write it out, it's not even a common format in the English
>>> speaking world, let alone the rest of the world, so on a list like this,
>>> confusion is dominant
>>>
>> Writing out isn't necessary if you use the ISO 8601 format, which is like
>> writing ordinary numbers, with most significant digits to the left.
>> 2005.11.12
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format#yyyy-mm-dd_.28year.2C_month.2C_day.29_-_the_ISO_8601_standard
>>
> You have no idea of the confusion I cause here when I write a date in
> this format. However, I am slowly educating the masses :-)
I thought ISO 8601 required hyphens, not periods.
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