[Nms-cgi-devel] Re: hacking the countdown script

[iain t. <ic...@eh...>]

* grinder (gr...@pe...) [02 Dec 2001 02:18]:

[...]
> One other point: '%c' as a strftime date specifier is a little
> cryptic. I would tend to prefer '%H:%M:%S %d/%m/%Y'. Regardless of the
> broken way Americans deal with dates, this is a little more
> self-documenting and therefore would probably let people modify the
> format string without having to read the man page.

Personally, I'd use %b rather than %m - the one that puts 'Jul' in
rather than '7'. It makes things a bit more explict which is great when
one has to cope with the fact that you've got an international audience
part of which expects m/d/y and the rest expects d/m/y.

Just a thought.


cheers,
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iain.                                          <http://eh.org/~koschei/>