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Re: gcc news #2
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 10:06:26 -0700 Joe Buck wrote:
| On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 10:30:35AM -0600, llewelly@xmission.com wrote:
| > Mathieu Lacage <Mathieu.Lacage@sophia.inria.fr> writes:
| >
| > > The webpage has been updated.
| > > http://www.gnome.org/~mathieu/gcc/gcc.html
| >
| > I just read last week's gcc news - did you really mean to date it
| > 07-06-2003?
|
| DD-MM-YYYY is standard in Europe; MM/DD/YYYY is a mostly American
| peculiarity. For this reason, it's wise to avoid either form when
| addressing an international audience.
|
| It might be better to use an unambigous date form, like 7 June 2003.
AFAIK, the ISO form is YYYY-MM-DD, but using 2004-June-14 is certainly
an unambigous format, as is Joe's format.
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~Randy