Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 16:41:57 -0300 From: Fernan Aguero <fernan@iib.unsam.edu.ar> To: Kirill Ponomarew <krion@voodoo.oberon.net> Cc: Sergey Matveychuk <sem@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: EXPIRATION_DATE format Message-ID: <20041123194157.GA692@iib.unsam.edu.ar> In-Reply-To: <20041123190443.GN49745@voodoo.oberon.net> References: <41A36213.3040407@FreeBSD.org> <20041123190443.GN49745@voodoo.oberon.net>
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+----[ Kirill Ponomarew <krion@voodoo.oberon.net> (23.Nov.2004 16:09): | | On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 07:15:15PM +0300, Sergey Matveychuk wrote: | > Because of EXPIRATION_DATE format is not documented, it deffer from port | > to port: | > | > net/partysip/Makefile:EXPIRATION_DATE=2004-08-20 | > print/acroread/Makefile:EXPIRATION_DATE=November 21, 2004 | > www/netscape47-communicator/Makefile:EXPIRATION_DATE=12/07/2004 | > | > I think it should be fixed to common YYYY-MM-DD format? | | <bikeshed> | And why not DD-MM-YYYY ? ;) | </bikeshed> Maybe because we'd like to follow some agreed-upon standard? YYYY-MM-DD is what ISO 8601 specifies to represent dates: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html | | It would be great if you could standardize it in bsd.port.mk. | | -Kirill | +----] -- Fernán Agüero | Instituto de Investigaciones Biotecnológicas email | fernan at { iib.unsam.edu.ar , mail.retina.ar } wwww | http://genoma.unsam.edu.ar/~fernan phone, fax | +54 11 { 4580-7255 ext 310, 4752-9639 }
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