From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 4 21:53:27 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94B7316A475 for ; Sun, 4 Nov 2007 21:53:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from deeptech71@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.187]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 292EE13C494 for ; Sun, 4 Nov 2007 21:53:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from deeptech71@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b2so996985nfb for ; Sun, 04 Nov 2007 13:53:17 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=ie9gy8gJZlxIt5EJlfg8Gvg1Q/fnCK6/VHQgToJmx6M=; b=XkKw2gQdjVUBinEzeGXPgkWFyPYbp88U6+rWXk36jcj7LEieeuTesEyclL/0WLByndU5D3DKCfQBj1uOzo7GGADlDgVcEmMmdTkx/q7MnWc29qYYw5MXW7dObPhxIWUXD3X0g7t+bBD+d0ltUF7jb/f8FXkwXOtAgMz8pWHXHTo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=f046pg0e+lS4GPTkBC0PzK0Lf6ATPMYJ6oeOGyopEYY0OCxtJ2DDMufUU/ly+Akq1lJLojIURTeWf18M2BusF0WMvU2HPlMefw/5euWDTbp7evUrhkQ35Z+Q/2mPufgjfrGwnQ26GGEYMxgwz/lbkzzxTNTlmkSkcGCuyhpR8tg= Received: by 10.86.65.11 with SMTP id n11mr2844314fga.1194213197454; Sun, 04 Nov 2007 13:53:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.123.1? ( [78.92.59.110]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 13sm10736178fks.2007.11.04.13.53.15 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 04 Nov 2007 13:53:16 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <472E3F27.4010007@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 22:52:39 +0100 From: deeptech71@gmail.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071009 MultiZilla/1.8.3.3a SeaMonkey/1.1.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org References: <472E2737.1020509@gmail.com> <200711041506.53690.josh@tcbug.org> In-Reply-To: <200711041506.53690.josh@tcbug.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 21:53:27 -0000 Josh Paetzel wrote: > On Sunday 04 November 2007 14:10:31 deeptech71@gmail.com wrote: >> What does it take to transition to the international standard for >> representing times? >> >> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html > > alias date to date +%Y-%m-%d I suppose. > > In reality how difficult it is for you to transition to using the > international standard for representing times depends on how much software > you have that you need to migrate to it and how difficult interoperability > will be with systems you don't control. > If UNIX, BSDs, Sun, Apple, Microsoft, etc. all agreed to represent times using the standard, and rewrite all config files to use that notation, whatsoever... ?