From: "Riley Williams" <Riley@Williams.Name>
To: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>, "Andrew Morton" <akpm@digeo.com>
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
Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 08:57:44 +0100
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Hi Randy.

 > 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)

The above is just plain wrong...

05/15/2003  - US style
15/05/2003  - European style
2003/05/15  - Japanese numeric style

2003-May-15 - Japanese text style
15-May-2003 - UK style
2003-05-15  - ISO style

Personally, I find any of the last group to be perfectly readable,
but find the first group (especially the first two) plain confusing.

Best wishes from Riley.
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