On 7/2/07, Matias Capeletto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/2/07, Charles Brockman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > John Maddock wrote: > > > That's a whole other topic, but I'm going to suggest we standardise > > > on A4 paper sizes for our PDF's: A4 is an ISO std (unlike US letter) > > > and in practice is just slightly smaller all round than US letter, which > > > should keep folks on both sides of the Atlantic happy I hope! > > > > May I suggest the adoption of the unambiguous ISO 8601 for the > > representation of dates and times in all documentation? > > Yep. > > > See "A summary of the international standard date and time notation" at > > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html or "ISO 8601" at > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601. > > > > For instance, on http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/ImprovingBoostDocs the > > line > > "(01/07/07) Initial structure of the Boost Glue docs project." would be > > "(2007- 01 - 07) Initial structure of the Boost Glue docs project." or > > perhaps > > "(2007 - 07 - 01) Initial structure of the Boost Glue docs project." > > I like it. > Can we use: 07-07-01 ? > I do not think the news will be news in 100 years from now ;)
FWIW, "200x" makes sense when there's any pre-2000 news to convert, and/or sharing space with any pre-2000 dates for any reason (filenames, etc). If there's no news before then that would be converted to the newer format, the yy-mm-dd would not generate any sorting errors. Allan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Boost-docs mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe and other administrative requests: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/boost-docs
