From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] date parsing: be friendlier to our European friends.
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 00:47:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060405224751.GA10139@mars.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vlkujzly0.fsf_-_@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 03:39:35PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> This does three things, only applies to cases where the user
> manually tries to override the author/commit time by environment
> variables, with non-ISO, non-2822 format date-string:
>
> - Refuses to use the interpretation to put the date in the
> future; recent kernel history has a commit made with
> 10/03/2006 which is recorded as October 3rd.
>
> - Adds '.' as the possible year-month-date separator. We
> learned from our European friends on the #git channel that
> dd.mm.yyyy is the norm there.
I my company we have always used yyyy-mm-dd - this is an ISO standard
IIRC. The company is European based.
mm/dd/yy has always made my head spin ;-)
Sam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-05 22:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-05 6:00 [PATCH] parse_date(): fix parsing 03/10/2006 Junio C Hamano
2006-04-05 6:16 ` Andrew Morton
2006-04-05 6:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-04-05 6:40 ` Andrew Morton
2006-04-05 22:39 ` [RFC/PATCH] date parsing: be friendlier to our European friends Junio C Hamano
2006-04-05 22:47 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2006-04-05 22:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-07-14 10:26 ` David Woodhouse
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