Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263848AbTETRtC (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2003 13:49:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263855AbTETRtC (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2003 13:49:02 -0400 Received: from mrw.demon.co.uk ([194.222.96.226]:2432 "EHLO rebecca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263848AbTETRtB convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2003 13:49:01 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Mark Watts To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation for iostats Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 19:02:00 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <200305192118.h4JLIu710201@owlet.beaverton.ibm.com> <20030519160133.58385b88.akpm@digeo.com> <20030519163816.66489368.rddunlap@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20030519163816.66489368.rddunlap@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <200305201902.00582.m.watts@mrw.demon.co.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1057 Lines: 26 On Tuesday 20 May 2003 12:38 am, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > 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) /me points out that 15/05/2003 is in a nice ascending order (day, month, year) so you dont increment things out of order... Anyway, whats wrong with using the number of seconds since.... - 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/