On Sat, 5 Nov 2005 14:24:01 -0500 Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
| 051105 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
| > News Item File Format
|  ...
| > The news item will be named in the form
| > ``yyyy-mm-dd-item-name.en.txt``
|  ...
| > News Item Headers
|  ...
| >     Date of posting, in ``dd-mmm-yyyy`` format (e.g. 14-Aug-2001).
| 
| </spectate>
| Why the change in date format ?  Let's use the proper international
| style, ie ``yyyy-mm-dd``, in both places, which has the added
| advantage of not creating problems for non-Anglophones with different
| month names. <spectate>

Consistency with GLEPs.

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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Anti-XML, anti-newbie conspiracy)
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