proposed changes to strftime.c

Arthur David Olson ado
Sat May 29 23:46:18 UTC 1993


> 	Use ISO standard date format for %x; this is more appropriate than the
> 	American date format, which confuses non-Americans.  Especially for
> 	dates like 01/02/03; the ISO date 2003-01-02 is much clearer for
> 	everybody, and it sorts correctly too.

Does "ISO standard date format" hear mean that YYYY-MM-DD is what the ISO
version of the C language standard requires, or does it mean something else?

				--ado



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