Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 15:31:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 15:31:15 -0400 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:41490 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 15:31:03 -0400 Message-ID: <3BCB3984.5030009@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 12:31:16 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Organization: Zytor Communications User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20010913 X-Accept-Language: en, sv MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Roeland Th. Jansen" CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Wireless Extension update In-Reply-To: <3BC3243A.D3B48880@osdlab.org> <9qd9cp$977$1@cesium.transmeta.com> <20011015192647.A1769@grobbebol.xs4all.nl> 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 Roeland Th. Jansen wrote: > On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 05:07:53PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >>YYYY-MM-DD is also unambiguous, and has the nice properties of being >>(a) sortable and (b) language-independent. >> > > it only is unambiguous if you happen to know the format beforehand. > It is, but unlike all other numeric formats there is no conflicting format in use. > 20011001 is ? > > 10 oct 2001 ? > 01 jan 2001 ? > 1 Oct 2001, whereas "01/10/2001" would be read as Jan 10, 2001 or Oct 1, 2001 in differents part of the world. Using language-specific codes are fine and well only if you know for sure which language was used. -hpa - 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/