RFC regarding usage of ISO 8601 throughout the tree

[Rob Farmer]

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 Farmer