On Mon, 31 May 2010 01:51:14 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun,30.May.10, 18:05:43, Camaleón wrote:
(...) >> This way I have to think *less* to be sure about the date. No guessing. > > You example shows only dates where it is quite obvious what date format > is used. Let me see... > > -rwx------ 1 amp amp 891837 2010-05-03 22:55 03052010065.jpg > -rwx------ 1 amp amp 733361 2010-05-03 22:55 03052010066.jpg > > Can you tell if these files were created 5th march or 3rd may? How (I'd > really like to know)? You got it :-) That can only be read as "3rd May, 2010". And that is precisely the gain of the ISO date format over the rest of the other alternatives: nodoby has to ask -or guess- "what your locale is" in order to correctly interpret the date you are showing because is always fixed ("year-month-day" notation). Humans have to learn many things from computers. Mainly, "logic". Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.05.31.06.39...@gmail.com