On 7/2/07, Charles Brockman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> John Maddock wrote:
> > That's a whole other topic, but I'm going to suggest we standardise
> > on A4 paper sizes for our PDF's: A4 is an ISO std (unlike US letter)
> > and in practice is just slightly smaller all round than US letter, which
> > should keep folks on both sides of the Atlantic happy I hope!
>
> May I suggest the adoption of the unambiguous ISO 8601 for the
> representation of dates and times in all documentation?

Yep.

> See "A summary of the international standard date and time notation" at
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html or "ISO 8601" at
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601.
>
> For instance, on http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/ImprovingBoostDocs the
> line
> "(01/07/07) Initial structure of the Boost Glue docs project." would be
> "(2007- 01 - 07) Initial structure of the Boost Glue docs project." or
> perhaps
> "(2007 - 07 - 01) Initial structure of the Boost Glue docs project."

I like it.
Can we use: 07-07-01 ?
I do not think the news will be news in 100 years from now ;)

Best regards
Matias

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