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[Kevin Kinsey]

deeptech71 at gmail.com wrote:
> Josh Paetzel wrote:
>> On Sunday 04 November 2007 14:10:31 deeptech71 at gmail.com wrote:
>>> What does it take to transition to the international standard for
>>> representing times?
>>>
>>> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html
>>
>> alias date to date +%Y-%m-%d I suppose.
>>
>> In reality how difficult it is for you to transition to using the 
>> international standard for representing times depends on how much 
>> software you have that you need to migrate to it and how difficult 
>> interoperability will be with systems you don't control.
>>
> 
> If UNIX, BSDs, Sun, Apple, Microsoft, etc. all agreed to represent times 
> using the standard, and rewrite all config files to use that notation, 
> whatsoever... ?

"What's a 'config file', which department thought that one up, and what
is marketing doing to get ready for its release?

And, are you actually discussing this before we get a patent?"

   --- attributed to Steve Ballmer, November 2007

;-)


Kevin Kinsey
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