On 25 December 2012 06:36, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote: > On 2012-12-21, David Crossley wrote: > >> While trying to debug a Gump run, i noticed some jars in the classpath >> with strange filenames, e.g. ant-contrib-20122012.jar >> I presume that that is expanded from the @@DATE@@ in project/ant-contrib.xml > >> Should that be YYYYMMDD so 20121220? > > Right now @@DATE@@ on http://vmgump.apache.org/gump/public/index.html > says 24122012 which looks strange for most people[1]. I recall > wondering why it is so several times but never bothered to change it. > > It's very unlikely any harm could be done if @@DATE@@ was changed to a > more common format. > > Stefan > > [1] for Germans the format is what you'd use when writing down the > current date. I don't recall writing that code, though.
DDMMYYYY is also used in the UK; it's mainly (only?) the US who use MMDDYYYY YYYYMMDD format would be much clearer; even better might be YYYY-MM-DD as that would make the format obvious. [MM cannot be larger than 12, so a date in YYYYMMDD format cannot be confused with a date in DDMMYYYY or MMDDYYYY format unless we expect dates from the 13th Century or earlier! - but it's easier to read with separators] And of course YYYY-MM-DD and YYYYMMDD naturally sort chronologically. [I've not wriiten any Gump code] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@gump.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@gump.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@gump.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@gump.apache.org