On Fri, 13 Sep 2013 22:52:14 -0700, Ed Jaffe wrote: >>>> >>>> APAR Identifier ...... OA41040 Last Changed ........ 13/09/12 >> >> d/m/y (European Date Format) - ie: September 13, 2012. > >LOL. I guess you're trying to prove Gil's point. :) > It's a shame there are so many dots in there. Otherwise they could just expand the date field by two columns and use ISO 8601 format.
>Of course, anyone who's ever used IBMLink to lookup/access APARs/PTFs >knows its dates are of the form yy/mm/dd. > Just one more thing to memorize. "ever" may be different from "recently". It was worse last year; it will be better in 2032. I suppose they believed 14 years ago that there was no reason to change. After all, no one would ever mistake "99" (or "00") for a month or a day. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
