Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 17:39:40 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Suggestion... date format (ISO8601:2000) Message-ID: <20030917213940.GC24080@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 10:31:00PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: >I've found the following necessary. Opinions welcome IMO. > >$ date +"%F %H:%M UTC%z" >2003-09-17 19:43 UTC+0200 > >May I suggest that this format - or something similar gets used for date and >time on the webpage and elsewhere, as the maintainer might find apropriate. I think the date formats currently used are unambiguous. You're visiting a web site that is maintained by and for English speakers. If you can't figure out what "Sep" means then presumably you have vast problems with the rest of the site. Or maybe I should really say, PTC. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/