cvs commit: src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars calendar.freebsd

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Tue Aug 10 12:44:43 PDT 2004


In message <20040810191051.GA68379 at freebie.xs4all.nl>, Wilko Bulte writes:
>On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 11:58:10PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote..
>> In message <20040809.150537.96131820.imp at bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" writes:
>> 
>> >: At least DDMMYYYY is in increasing order of magnitude :-)
>> >: 
>> >: MMDDYYYY is in no order at all.
>> >
>> >But YYYYMMDD is sortable w/o a special date type!
>> 
>> Not to mention that it is trivially and unambigously extensible to arbitrary
>> precision:
>> 
>> 	YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.mmmuuunnnppp...
>
>I suppose you have the midwife consult your atomic clock for the exact 
>time of birth?

I was not in a position to sufficiently communicate with the midwife
at my birth, sorry.

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