Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/01/2010 03:23 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> On Ma, 01 iun 10, 13:56:12, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> >>> From SUSv3: >>> "The<date and time> field shall contain the appropriate date and >>> timestamp of >>> when the file was last modified. In the POSIX locale, the field shall >>> be the >>> equivalent of the output of the following date command: >>> >>> date "+%b %e %H:%M" >>> >>> if the file has been modified in the last six months, or: >>> >>> date "+%b %e %Y" >> ... >>> Of course, SUS basically ignores any locale other than "POSIX" or "C", >>> but there is rarely a good reason to be different in other locales. >> >> One reason would be that '%b %e %Y' makes sense only to Americans>:-) >> > > I've often wondered where that date convention originates. The military > (or, at least, the Navy) and DEC, when it created VMS (don't know about > it's earlier OSs) realizes the flaw in that format and thus uses > DD-AAA-YYYY. >
But for sorting easily, YYYY-MM-DD is the best format. -- Erwan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c05f3aa.2060...@rail.eu.org
