From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 6 02:07:08 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB5DA106564A for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2011 02:07:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rfarmer@predatorlabs.net) Received: from mail-ww0-f50.google.com (mail-ww0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 818058FC08 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2011 02:07:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwf26 with SMTP id 26so15760676wwf.31 for ; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 18:07:07 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.144.205 with SMTP id n55mr150429wej.5.1294278140790; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:42:20 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.216.241.11 with HTTP; Wed, 5 Jan 2011 17:42:20 -0800 (PST) X-Originating-IP: [128.95.133.155] In-Reply-To: <20110105132155.GO23329@acme.spoerlein.net> References: <20110105132155.GO23329@acme.spoerlein.net> Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 17:42:20 -0800 Message-ID: From: Rob Farmer To: current@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Subject: Re: RFC regarding usage of ISO 8601 throughout the tree X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 02:07:08 -0000 On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 05:21, Ulrich Sp=F6rlein wrote: > !ACHTUNG BIKESHED ALERT! > > Hello, > > With the recent changes to the committer graphs, I again was reminded > how much I hate the YYYY/MM/DD format (I can't help it ...). Given that > this almost looks like ISO 8601, but is an unreadable variant of it, I > would like to aggressively change this throughout the tree. > The current format is ISO 8601 compliant, because it allows omitting the hyphen for compactness in computer files that may be automatically processed. Also, adding the hyphen is a bit confusing, because many common (non-compliant) date systems use hyphens or slashes with the components in different orders. Omitting it is non-intuitive to everyone and thus least likely to cause confusion due to local assumptions in cases like 2001-01-02. --=20 Rob Farmer