On 02/04/11 15:40, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/01/2011 11:17 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 02/04/11 14:57, Kelly Clowers wrote: >>> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 20:23, Scott Ferguson > [snip] >>>> >>>> Why not use the Debian standard?? >>>> day-of-week, dd month yyyy hh:mm:ss +zzzz >>> >>> Too verbose, not sortable >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Kelly Clowers >>> >>> >> >> >> So... >> the RFC standards for internet communication is not good enough? >> or the Debian Policy standard >> or the standard of *this* mailing list:- >> (eg. as used in >> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/04/msg00141.html) >> >> And *you* can't sort the in-place standards? >> >> Let me guess - do you also use the imperial measurement system? >> Did someone mention Cultural Imperialism earlier? >> ;-p > > I've always thought that Unix Time is *incredibly stupid* (who the heck > says "Fri Apr 1 23:27:41 CDT 2011"?) and *monumentally shortsighted* > (did nothing happen before 01-Jan-1970?).
Um, apropos of what (Unix time)?? > > OpenVMS does it one of the two Right Ways There's two "right" ways?? :-) > of displaying time > (01-Apr-2011 23:27:41) Which *is* RFC 2822.... > and has an epoch date of 17-NOV-1858 00:00:00.00 > (modified Julian date adopted by the Smithsonian Astrophysical > Observatory for satellite tracking) and keeps time in a signed 64 bit > integer using 100ns resolution). > Interesting... Cheers -- I don't see it that way, Geoff. I think we're dealing with... ...a potentially positive learning experience that can-- "The Meaning Of Life" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d96b188.3000...@gmail.com
