I need more than just $Id:$

RichardBrooksbyrb at geodesic.com RichardBrooksbyrb at geodesic.com
Mon Jun 15 05:32:06 PDT 1998


At 11:22 1998-06-15 +0100, Nick Barnes wrote:

> At 1998-06-13 21:08:58 UT, Christian Ludloff writes:
>
> > $Date$                @date           # yyyy/mm/dd
>
> Anything wrong with ISO standard date format?

See <URL: http://www.iso.ch/cate/d15903.html> and also the summary at <URL:
http://www.ft.uni-erlangen.de/~mskuhn/iso-time.html>.

Basically, it's "YYYY-MM-DD" (all numeric).

I agree that the last thing we need is yet another non-standard date format
to parse.

See also <URL: http://www.saqqara.demon.co.uk/datefmt.htm> and <URL:
http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/technical/SGML/doc/iso8601/ISO8601.html>.






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