[Coco] ftp.maltedmedia
John W. Linville
linville at tuxdriver.com
Tue Nov 18 18:20:00 EST 2003
David wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 03:29:38PM +1000, Bob Devries wrote:
>>Um, could you use YYMMDD just to keep it a bit more internationally
>>readable?
> In addition to the readability, YYMMDD sorts alphabetically, too. FWIW,
> if your "dir" or "ls" or whatever sorts alphabetically, the files will
> show up in chronological order.
This is probably a better argument than "That's the way the French do
it..." :-)
As long as we are proposing changes, how about YYYYMMDD instead? That
(e.g. file-20030104) will be more clear than file-030104 would be...
John
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