Alan J. Flavell wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Troy Dawson wrote:
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>>The date is only used for the subject header so that users can sort
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> I don't have any way to "sort" on mm/dd/yy, without having to create
> some custom sorting rules; but without the ISO-ish format would sort
> correctly without any effort at all; so your argument would seem to
> favour my proposal.
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>>This is not a hard thing to change. As you pointed out, it's just a
>>change in what I set as date.
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> I'm not happy at the idea of everyone having to apply their own local
> corrections to cure problems. I'd rather see them addressed at
> source, no matter how "easy" they might be to correct locally.
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Oh, that wasn't what I meant at all.
I meant, this is easy to change, so I have no problem changing it in the main
yum-conf rpm.
>>For my vote, I do not feel that changing it to yyyy-mm-dd is going
>>to solve the problem, because who's to know that it isn't
>>yyyy-dd-mm.
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> Do you have any /serious/ reason for suggesting that, please?
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Before I answer you question, I have changed my mind. Local people has sat
down with me and talked with me about this. (Don't know why I had sorting
dates so messed up in my head, but I did). So I am now in favor of yyyy-mm-dd
is that is what others want.
But when I said what I said above, I was thinking, if people can't tell the
difference between dd-mm-yy, and mm-dd-yy, how are they going to tell the
difference between yyyy-mm-dd and yyyy-dd-mm. It's all just numbers.
(And no, I don't know the ISO standards. But I have read the man page for date.)
Anyway, if people agree on a format, I'll change it to whatever people agree to.
So what format do you want? Because in your original e-mail it sounded like
you wanted the month spelled out in the date, which was what I thought I was
accommodating.
Troy
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