[ogb-discuss] Standarising on one clear date format

[Joerg Schilling]

Darren Reed <Darren.Reed at Sun.COM> wrote:

> At present most of the OpenSolaris documents seem to use the US date
> format of MM/DD/YY (ie. fast track documents for PSARC.)  Besides
> dates like 08/08/08, there are times when 05/06/07 can be interpreted
> any number of ways, depending on which locale you're from.  Not so much
> fun until you remember to load the North American locale filter into your
> brain.
>
> For the purpose of filling out forms and other official documentation that
> requires a date, I'd like to propose that we implement an OpenSolaris wide
> change to a date format that cannot be confused for anything other than
> what it is:
>
> YYYY-MMM-DD
>
> e.g. 2008-Apr-24

BTW: if people use automated date stamp creation, the related software needs
to support this. For this reason, I did enhance SCCS by:

      %d%        Current date: yyyy/mm/dd

      %e%        Date  newest   applied   delta   was   created:
                 yyyy/mm/dd

      %g%        Date  newest   applied   delta   was   created:
                 mm/dd/yyyy

      %h%        Current date: mm/dd/yyyy

To get a recent SCCS, get the latest Schily source consolidation from

ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily/

Jörg

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