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Re: Ok to use cvs keywords for date and revision?



On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 03:51:22PM +0000, Markus Gutschke wrote:
> So, if you feel that you absolutely must annotate your dates with some
> locale specific format, then I won't be able to stop you; but whatever
> you do, make sure that you always include the ISO string. The latter
> is the only format that you can expect to be universally understood
> anywhere that people use the Gregorian calendar.

OK but I think we should include the spelled-out form too.  What about
say: 2000-8-9 (August 9, 2000).

That should be clear to almost everyone.  In other words the local
date form would go inside the parentheses>

			David Lawyer


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