Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 11:46:11 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> Cc: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami), peter@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-usrbin@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/chpass Makefile chpass.c edit.c table.c util.c Message-ID: <3977.840566771@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 20 Aug 1996 19:24:24 %2B0200." <199608201724.TAA02372@campa.panke.de>
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> I expect more confusing next century. What is 01/02/03? > I prefer the www log format, eg: 14/Aug/1996 I think that everyone will standardize on "bookkeeper's notation" anyway (and what I use on all my checks - confuses the bank sometimes :-) YYYYMMDD It sorts nicely and everything. Accountants have been using 4 digit years forever anyway - some old firms have records going back to the late 1800's, and they've already faced this problem once. :-) Jordan
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