I'd like to say that there is no standard date/time format in Debian. Sometimes developers use the American format 06/15/00 9:10pm and sometimes they use the European one 15/06/00 21:10
The fix I would like to see in Debian is using the International Standard ISO 8601. That's using 24 hour format always and ISO 8601 date format 2000-06-15 The original scanned document is at: http://www.iso.ch/markete/8601.pdf And the best web page about it: ISO 8601 http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html this page speaks also over all of its advantages. Eduardo PĂ©rez