In message <200...@eh...>, iain truskett writes:
| * grinder (gr...@pe...) [02 Dec 2001 02:18]:
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| [...]
| > 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.
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| 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.
Well, that's a rather anglo-centric view of teh world. There's really no
out. The ideal way would be YMD, but that's still not really widespread
outside computer circles. If the only issue is between English-speaking
people, %d/%m/%y is pretty self-explanatory.
Later,
David
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