On 02/04/11 23:35, Aaron Toponce wrote: > On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 02:23:31PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> Why not use the Debian standard??
^ It *was* a question, and I *was* soliciting an answer. >> Reasoning - it's already been extensively debated *and* voted on, it's a >> system already in place, it's the "Debian" way. >> >> (Is there more than one (Debian standard)?) ^ Again I was asking a question. >> >> >From :- >> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-dpkgchangelog >> >> The date has the following format[17] (compatible and with the same >> semantics of RFC 2822 and RFC 5322): >> >> day-of-week, dd month yyyy hh:mm:ss +zzzz The above is a "selective" re-quoting of my original post - possibly the cause of confusion. The short form is ddmmyyyy - which I agree, is ambiguous. Whilst widely practised, like the metric system. it's not universal. I suspect that's why the ISO standard for an abreviated date format runs - left-to-right, highest-to-lowest eg 20110401. An emminently sensible solution in many circumstances. > > I'm not the one who typed the initial date of "04/01/11". http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/04/msg00007.html > Had the Debian > standard of "Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700" been used, there would have > been no ambiguity, now would there? Agreed - simply 1 April or April 1 (April Fool!) should have been sufficient. I don't know how others see posts from the debian-user list, perhaps their method strips out or rewrites the date(?). While Freeman *did* write the date USA style - the date of the post, shown in the post *is* unambiguous. The way my mail appears, as a subscriber to the debian-user list (not gmane or whatever), makes writing the current date into a post doubly redundant... ;-p I suspect Liam's response was made in jest :-) > > Further, why do all that typing on a mailing list thread, when "2011-04-01" > is, oh I don't know, _one_ _third_ the length, and still retains > unambiguity? > > Heh. You can do things the short way or the long way. I'll take the short > way. > Indeed (and agreed). Perhaps even, "why type it at all if the mailing list date stamp makes the process redundant?" :-D (Please note that's not a criticism of your comments Aaron) Now just imagine the trollfest/flamewar that *would* occur if the Canterbury Distribution had been a reality instead of a brilliantly orchestrated prank! (the result of half a dozen FOSS people getting drunk at the Delirium Cafe in Brussels a couple of months ago??) Cheers -- Tuttle? His name's Buttle. There must be some mistake. Mistake? [Chuckles] We don't make mistakes. [Crash] –That's bloody typical! They've gone back to metric without telling us. "Brazil" - Terry Gilliam -- 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/4d97bd3a.9040...@gmail.com