From owner-cvs-usrbin  Tue Aug 20 10:50:13 1996
Return-Path: owner-cvs-usrbin
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA20673
          for cvs-usrbin-outgoing; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 10:50:13 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (root@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.13])
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA20665;
          Tue, 20 Aug 1996 10:50:08 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from campa.panke.de (anonymous233.ppp.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.233]) by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id TAA06738; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 19:29:58 +0200
Received: (from wosch@localhost) by campa.panke.de (8.6.12/8.6.12) id TAA02372; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 19:24:24 +0200
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 19:24:24 +0200
From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Message-Id: <199608201724.TAA02372@campa.panke.de>
To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
Cc: peter@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org,
        cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-usrbin@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject: Re: cvs commit:  src/usr.bin/chpass Makefile chpass.c edit.c table.c util.c
In-Reply-To: <199608121933.MAA06634@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
References: <199608121445.HAA22502@freefall.freebsd.org>
	<199608121933.MAA06634@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-to: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Sender: owner-cvs-usrbin@FreeBSD.ORG
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk

Satoshi Asami writes:
> *   Note that using numbers means there's a chance that you can get bitten
> *   if you're not used to the American DD-MM-YY order.

DD-MM-YY order is common in Germany.


>Uh Peter, the Americans around here seem to use MM-DD-YY....
>
>Satoshi (yeah I know, real weird, in Japan it's YY-MM-DD....)

I expect more confusing next century. What is 01/02/03?  
I prefer the www log format, eg: 14/Aug/1996

Wolfram