On Tuesday 20 May 2003 12:38 am, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> On Mon, 19 May 2003 16:01:33 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com> wrote:
> | "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es> wrote:
> | > > Pet peeve number 4,592: There is no fifteenth month.
> | >
> | > How about using ISO dates to avoid this confussions ?
> | > Last modified: 20030515
> |
> | Still hurts my brain. I like "15 May 2003".
>
> I think you should just get over it. :)
>
> There are 3 widely-used date formats, but only one standard one.
>
> 05/15/2003 (US et al order; the worst of the 3 IMO :)
> 15/05/2003 (or your 15 May 2003)
> 2003/05/15 (ISO standard)
/me points out that 15/05/2003 is in a nice ascending order (day, month, year)
so you dont increment things out of order...
Anyway, whats wrong with using the number of seconds since....
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