svn commit: r194231 - head/share/timedef

[Edwin Groothuis]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 06:34:23AM +0000, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> > Undo the change in r193688 as suggested in conf/72076.
> >
> > People on IRC and the -doc mailinglist (June 2009) showed that this
> > new format wasn't used or known widely enough to justify the change.
> 
> grml; it is but people have been ignorant for ages now, still using DIN 
> 1355;
> not sure we want to encourage this anymore:(
> 
> What follows is from the top of my head:
> 
> ISO8601 - from 198x[x=8|9]/1991
> EN28601 - from 1992
> DIN5008 - from 2001
> 
> In contrast to that DIN1355 imho was fomm 194x, changed at least 1975
> and I think they did something mid-90s after EN28601 was out.
> 
> Imho since 2005 or 2006 ISO8601 is authoritative.

Grab your asbestos underpants and re-commit the change :-)

Edwin
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