> It would seem the use > of "/" is a "left-over" from using the American date format, which is > MM/DD/YY. No, it's actually a leftover from RCS, which originally used the date format YY/MM/DD. This is not the American date format: it was designed by W. Tichy (a German :-) in the early 1980s and I believe it predates ISO 8601. As RCS maintainer I extended the format to YYYY/MM/DD in the early 1990s. I stuck with the "/" for backward compatibility, as some RCS date-parsing software back then didn't allow "-". I wouldn't object if the date format were changed to ISO 8601 now, though of course there should be an option to leave it the way it is.
