c-common.c; strftime.c; question
Jim Van Zandt
jrv at vanzandt.mv.com
Fri Aug 23 00:51:41 UTC 1996
Alex Livingston writes:
>>might it be best to change strftime so
>>that "%x" yields, for example,
>> 1996-08-22
...
>
>Absolutely! It infuriates me that such a result should ever be returned.
>Any concession to the US-only
>we'll-do-it-our-way-and-never-change-and-claim-to-be-best-no-matter-how-bad-
>it-is all-numerical way of writing dates should be eliminated.
Not all of us claim that 12/1/96 is the best way. I would support use
of the ISO 8601 format.
- Jim Van Zandt
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