Re: [tlug] "Locale" urrrgh

[Nguyen Vu Hung <vu-hung@example.com>]

Birkir A. Barkarson ????????:
> > There's no "merit". This is natural language, that's all.
>
> Indeed.
> I don't have a clear idea why these date formats are so, like you and
> Mike noted it is probably just natural language evolution. But, as
> Josh and Edward also noted, we do seem to agree that in an
> international environment it can be quite confusing if not noted
> properly. In such a case using ISO dates definitely has merit.
The world is not utopia. I agreed with Turnbull.

I use YYYY/yy/mm because it is "standard" date format in Japan,
influenced by the masukomi :D

FYI,

date -I
2007-07-13
man date | snip
-I, --iso-8601[=TIMESPEC] output an ISO-8601 compliant date/time string.
TIMESPEC=`date' (or missing) for date only, `hours', `minutes', or 
`seconds' for date and time to
the indicated precision.