On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 05:21, Ulrich Spörlein <uqs_at_spoerlein.net> wrote: > !ACHTUNG BIKESHED ALERT! > > Hello, > > With the recent changes to the committer graphs, I again was reminded > how much I hate the YYYY/MM/DD format (I can't help it ...). Given that > this almost looks like ISO 8601, but is an unreadable variant of it, I > would like to aggressively change this throughout the tree. > The current format is ISO 8601 compliant, because it allows omitting the hyphen for compactness in computer files that may be automatically processed. Also, adding the hyphen is a bit confusing, because many common (non-compliant) date systems use hyphens or slashes with the components in different orders. Omitting it is non-intuitive to everyone and thus least likely to cause confusion due to local assumptions in cases like 2001-01-02. -- Rob FarmerReceived on Thu Jan 06 2011 - 01:07:08 UTC
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