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In message <20040809.150537.96131820.imp@bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" writes:

>: At least DDMMYYYY is in increasing order of magnitude :-)
>: 
>: MMDDYYYY is in no order at all.
>
>But YYYYMMDD is sortable w/o a special date type!

Not to mention that it is trivially and unambigously extensible to arbitrary
precision:

	YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.mmmuuunnnppp...

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