Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263305AbTESXaG (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 May 2003 19:30:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263274AbTESXaG (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 May 2003 19:30:06 -0400 Received: from air-2.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:16553 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263305AbTESXaF (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 May 2003 19:30:05 -0400 Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 16:38:16 -0700 From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: Andrew Morton Cc: jamagallon@able.es, ricklind@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lm@bitmover.com, cs@tequila.co.jp Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation for iostats Message-Id: <20030519163816.66489368.rddunlap@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20030519160133.58385b88.akpm@digeo.com> References: <200305192118.h4JLIu710201@owlet.beaverton.ibm.com> <20030519154858.3b3e2677.akpm@digeo.com> <20030519225542.GE6096@werewolf.able.es> <20030519160133.58385b88.akpm@digeo.com> Organization: OSDL X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.11 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) X-Face: +5V?h'hZQPB9kW Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 811 Lines: 27 On Mon, 19 May 2003 16:01:33 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote: | "J.A. Magallon" wrote: | > | > > Pet peeve number 4,592: There is no fifteenth month. | > > | > | > How about using ISO dates to avoid this confussions ? | > Last modified: 20030515 | | Still hurts my brain. I like "15 May 2003". I think you should just get over it. :) There are 3 widely-used date formats, but only one standard one. 05/15/2003 (US et al order; the worst of the 3 IMO :) 15/05/2003 (or your 15 May 2003) 2003/05/15 (ISO standard) -- ~Randy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/