Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 14:31:59 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: misc/9500: `edithook' is not Y2K compliant Message-ID: <199901161931.OAA06255@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <l03020901b2c64b00a51f@[194.32.164.2]> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990115173619.18735A-100000@jade.chc-chimes.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.990116091834.17266B-100000@enya.clari.net.au> <19990115190308.A18409@znh.org> <l03020901b2c64b00a51f@[194.32.164.2]>
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<<On Sat, 16 Jan 1999 14:01:38 +0000, Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk> said: > The [yy]yy mm dd order is also blessed by ISO 2014-1976, with the caveat > that two-digit year should be used only "where no possible confusion can > arise from the omission of the century". ISO 8601 specifies the format yyyymmdd, with or without inserted hyphens (not slashes), and with various bits omitted from the left when they can be inferred from context. Unfortunately, too many protocols require the use of other styles of dates (see, e.g., RFC 2068). The full format includes a time specification, with various bits omitted from the right (assumed to be zero). -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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