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Re: Suggestion... date format (ISO8601:2000)


On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 10:31:00PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote:
>I've found the following necessary. Opinions welcome IMO.
>
>$ date +"%F %H:%M UTC%z"
>2003-09-17 19:43 UTC+0200
>
>May I suggest that this format - or something similar gets used for date and
>time on the webpage and elsewhere, as the maintainer might find apropriate.

I think the date formats currently used are unambiguous.  You're visiting a
web site that is maintained by and for English speakers.  If you can't
figure out what "Sep" means then presumably you have vast problems with
the rest of the site.

Or maybe I should really say, PTC.

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