On Sat, Aug 07, 1999 at 03:25:27PM +0200, peter karlsson wrote: > It would be nice if the dates that are used in the news and security > bulletins are stored in some "language independent" way in the files, so > that when a new bulletin which isn't yet translated shows up on a translated > index file, the date shows up in the native format, not in the English. > > IMHO, it looks kind of weird to find things like this: > > [6 Aug 1999] cfingerd (not translated) > [1999-07-31] Samba (translated) > [1999-06-23] mailman (translated)
Agreed. And automatically parsing dates for local translation would be easier in the ISO standard: YYYY-MM-DD. It's also very easy to sort chronologically in that format.
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