[clue] Meeting on 121113 at McAfee.

[David L. Willson]

Dude,

ISO date format.
ie:
$ date --iso

Two (or four) extra characters and you get everything you want with no ambiguity.

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David L. Willson
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This is a good time for a r3VOLution.

----- Original Message -----
> foo7775 at comcast.net wrote:
> > Glad that I'm not the only one that interpreted that date string
> > that way.
> 
> So you didn't read the text that said "Our November meeting..."
> 
> > My personal "fix" for ambiguous date/time strings has been to adopt
> > the way that the military
> > denotes time. I'm not a vet, but '11 Nov 2012' is quick&  easy to
> > interpret,&  not especially
> > subject to misinterpretation...
> 
> But it doesn't sort automatically, e.g., when naming files.
> 
> Dave
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