From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "Roeland Th. Jansen" <roel@grobbebol.xs4all.nl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Wireless Extension update
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 12:31:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BCB3984.5030009@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BC3243A.D3B48880@osdlab.org> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0110142252270.6433-100000@Consulate.UFP.CX> <9qd9cp$977$1@cesium.transmeta.com> <20011015192647.A1769@grobbebol.xs4all.nl>
Roeland Th. Jansen wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 05:07:53PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
>>YYYY-MM-DD is also unambiguous, and has the nice properties of being
>>(a) sortable and (b) language-independent.
>>
>
> it only is unambiguous if you happen to know the format beforehand.
>
It is, but unlike all other numeric formats there is no conflicting format
in use.
> 20011001 is ?
>
> 10 oct 2001 ?
> 01 jan 2001 ?
>
1 Oct 2001, whereas "01/10/2001" would be read as Jan 10, 2001 or Oct 1,
2001 in differents part of the world.
Using language-specific codes are fine and well only if you know for sure
which language was used.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-15 19:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-09 2:12 Wireless Extension update Jean Tourrilhes
2001-10-09 16:22 ` Randy.Dunlap
2001-10-09 16:35 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2001-10-14 21:58 ` Riley Williams
2001-10-15 0:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-10-15 19:26 ` Roeland Th. Jansen
2001-10-15 19:31 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2001-10-15 21:02 ` Tobias Ringstrom
2001-10-15 0:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] ` <200110150008.RAA09482@cesium.transmeta.com>
2001-10-15 16:37 ` Jean Tourrilhes
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-03-29 2:12 Jean Tourrilhes
2000-12-20 0:59 Jean Tourrilhes
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