[pedevel] Re: Building on Haiku, /boot/common instead of /boot/home/config?

  • From: "Andrew Bachmann" <andrewbachmann@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: pedevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:05:28 -0700

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 2:06 PM, François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> I used this because here in France we use dd/mm/yy which is much saner,
> but since others use so weird mm/dd/yy one never knows if 01/02/79 is
> my birth date or not. Using this format makes sure the date can't be
> missinterpreted.
> As the man page says:
> %D
>    Equivalent to %m/%d/%y. (Yecch -- for Americans only. Americans
> should note that in other countries %d/%m/%y is rather common. This
> means that in international context this format is ambiguous and should
> not be used.) (SU)
>
> François.
>
>
Because of this ambiguity I always set my dates to yyyy/mm/dd, which is a
common date format in asian countries and easily understood by all other
cultures. :-)  This format also pairs nicely with times such as: yyyy/mm/dd
hh:mm:ss.zzz since the magnitude of each field orderly decreases.

Andrew

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