On 7/2/07, Jeff Garland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Scott McMurray wrote: > > On 02/07/07, Matias Capeletto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Do you guys think that the version of the packages are wrong to. > >> > >> We are using: > >> boost_docs_07_07_01 > >> > >> I find > >> boost_docs_2007_07_01 > >> a little verbose. > >> > > > >> On 7/2/07, Scott McMurray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> I prefer 4-digit years, personally. > > > > Another option might be boost_docs_20070701, which is ISO-compliant, > > though compliance there is really not important. It does keep the > > full year I like while not being longer than the current one, but it > > does lose a bit of readability. > > I'd just note that from my perspective as 'the date-time guy' it's my view > that ISO was never really meant to be human readable -- it's more about making > dates consistently computer readable. ISO extended (2007-07-01) is more > readable for humans, but it's still easily confused (is 07 a month or a day?). > I bet if I asked 100 people off the street what ISO date format 99 would > wonder what planet I'm from. Really, in my view, if you want human readable > dates you do this: 2007-Jul-01. Even non-english speakers get that the thing > in the middle is a month.
I would suggest one format used as consistently as possible -- one we can read, and that the machine can parse, and then situations that are read by both machine and human don't require choosing-rules. Other countries (I assume you're American) are able to figure out that the 07 is the month, just as they can figure out that in a number, thousands are followed by hundreds, then by tens, then by ones. Americans tend to want to reverse it from the archaic accounting practices. Don't say "ISO" to a guy on the street; they also don't know RFC-979, or RFC-2822 any better than they can point out their Pectoralis Major, but seem to be able to use it just fine. yyyy-mmm-dd is a colloqial format; yyyy-mm-dd works fine. yyyy-ddd is more difficult for a person to read, but yyyy-mm-dd works fine for a parser and a person. 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
