Re: Wireless Extension update

[H. Peter Anvin]

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By author:    Riley Williams <[e-mail]>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> 	DD.MM.YYYY	(European)
> 	MM/DD/YYYY	(American)
> 	YYYY-MM-DD	(Japanese)
> 
> ...with the punctuation character specifying the one in use. I note that
> the dates as originally quoted above are clearly consistant with this
> standard, so see no problem myself.
> 
> Personally, I prefer to use the DD-MMM-YYYY format myself, where MMM in
> the three-letter English abbreviation for the month in question, and
> there is thus no room for misreading it as something else.
> 

YYYY-MM-DD is also unambiguous, and has the nice properties of being
(a) sortable and (b) language-independent.

	-hpa
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