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Re: Ok to use cvs keywords for date and revision?
- To: Markus Gutschke <markus@gutschke.com>
- Subject: Re: Ok to use cvs keywords for date and revision?
- From: David Lawyer <dave@lafn.org>
- Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 19:14:02 -0800
- Cc: Greg Ferguson <gferg@hoop.timonium.sgi.com>, Mark Komarinski <mkomarinski@valinux.com>, "Robert B. Easter" <reaster@comptechnews.com>, ldp-discuss@lists.linuxdoc.org, discuss@linuxdoc.org
- In-reply-to: <E14IJPG-000412-00@janus>; from markus@gutschke.com on Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 03:51:22PM +0000
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On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 03:51:22PM +0000, Markus Gutschke wrote:
> So, if you feel that you absolutely must annotate your dates with some
> locale specific format, then I won't be able to stop you; but whatever
> you do, make sure that you always include the ISO string. The latter
> is the only format that you can expect to be universally understood
> anywhere that people use the Gregorian calendar.
OK but I think we should include the spelled-out form too. What about
say: 2000-8-9 (August 9, 2000).
That should be clear to almost everyone. In other words the local
date form would go inside the parentheses>
David Lawyer
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