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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
|
+----]

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