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Date:      Tue, 10 Aug 2004 21:10:51 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars calendar.freebsd
Message-ID:  <20040810191051.GA68379@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <34636.1092088690@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <20040809.150537.96131820.imp@bsdimp.com> <34636.1092088690@critter.freebsd.dk>

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On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 11:58:10PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote..
> 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...

I suppose you have the midwife consult your atomic clock for the exact 
time of birth?

:)

-- 
Wilko Bulte				wilko@FreeBSD.org



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