On 2013-03-21 18:07:26 -0700 (-0700), Russ Allbery wrote: > I will at least make a plea for ISO dates rather than the specific date > format in the last two examples. > > I think my favorite is the last example, with an ISO date (2023-03-21). [...]
Another alternative, not represented, is epoch seconds. Takes as many 7-bit printable characters to display (at least for the next few hundred years) as an ISO-8601 date with separators but provides much greater precision... and it's still trivially sortable. Can also be converted (on Debian and other GNU platforms) to your current locale with date -d@1234567890 -- { PGP( 48F9961143495829 ); FINGER( fu...@cthulhu.yuggoth.org ); WWW( http://fungi.yuggoth.org/ ); IRC( fu...@irc.yuggoth.org#ccl ); WHOIS( STANL3-ARIN ); MUD( kin...@katarsis.mudpy.org:6669 ); } -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130322011959.gc29...@yuggoth.org