The current human activity takes place in the days and hours rather than
years and seconds therefore good practice should be hours and days emphasis
on the first places (the most important), then month and minutes on the
second places and the rest.
DD.MM.YYYY
HH:MM:SS
-----Original Message-----
From: Karl Billeter
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 1:43 AM
To: Dave Bell
Cc: sundial@uni-koeln.de
Subject: [SPAM] Re: 08:09:10 11/12/13
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 03:01:46PM -0800, Dave Bell wrote:
As for y/m/d, I completely agree, but for a full sort, we should also
write
hh:mm:ss !
As in ISO 8601?
date(1)
...
-I[TIMESPEC], --iso-8601[=TIMESPEC]
output date/time in ISO 8601 format. TIMESPEC=`date' for
date
only (the default), `hours', `minutes', `seconds', or `ns'
for
date and time to the indicated precision.
karl@redgum:~$ date -Is
2013-11-14T11:42:17+1100
Karl
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