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Re: date formats

To: Sandy Harris <sandy@storm.ca>
Subject: Re: date formats
From: David Lawyer <dave@lafn.org>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 00:25:53 -0800
Cc: ldp-discuss@lists.debian.org
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> > > > The international standard date notation is
> > > >
> > > >    YYYY-MM-DD

> David Lawyer wrote:
> > But a lot of people will be confused by this.  If the doc is is
> > English, why not use the existing date format?

On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 09:10:22AM -0500, Sandy Harris wrote:
> Because anything but that standard creates confusion.
:
How can "4 February 1995" (LDP's present "standard") create confusion?
The doc is in English and as it was pointed out, anyone able to read
the doc should be able to also read the date.  And anyone able to
translate the doc should also be able to easily translate the date.

			David Lawyer


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