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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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