From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Jan 15 14:39:01 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA25672 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 14:39:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [206.67.97.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA25642 for ; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 14:38:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from billf@jade.chc-chimes.com) Received: from localhost (billf@localhost) by jade.chc-chimes.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA22119; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 17:40:28 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from billf@jade.chc-chimes.com) Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 17:40:28 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Fumerola To: "Daniel O'Callaghan" cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: misc/9500: `edithook' is not Y2K compliant In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, Daniel O'Callaghan wrote: > > Yes. What is your foundation for the new format? Perhaps this is just my > > American citizenship coming through, but mm/dd/yyyy is the way most people > > read dates. > > I'd like a definition of "most people", please. The only places where > mm/dd/yy is a valid date format are USA (260m), USA dependencies (.5m) and > confused Canadians ( some fraction of 26m). So your assertion becomes > that 286.5 million people is "most people". The rest of the English > speaking world, other parts of the British Commonwealth, European and > Hispanic worlds use either dd/mm/yy or yy/mm/dd. Japan uses yyyy/mm/dd; I > like to know how the Chinese write dates. I'd like to point on the 'perhaps this is...' in my statment, I wasn't trying to start a holy war. I'll also point out the people you mentioned are our most represented users, if not the majority. Either way is fine, I'm just wondering why you're using an obscure format, and I guess the answer is "it shows we're not biased towards one format". > yyyy/mm/dd is not my personal way of reading dates, but at least it is > unambiguous. (except for the Japenese users) - bill fumerola - billf@chc-chimes.com - BF1560 - computer horizons corp - - ph:(800) 252-2421 - bfumerol@computerhorizons.com - billf@FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message