On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 06:07:26PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> writes: > > > Here are examples of the old, new and possible alternative formats using > > likely maximum-length components: > > > old: #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Tue Mar 21 23:12:08 GMT 2023 [46] > > new: #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Debian 9.99~rc99-9~experimental.9 [51] > > > alt: #1 SMP PREEMPT RT 2023-02-21 Debian 9.99~rc99-9~experimental.9 [62] > > alt: #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Debian 9.99~rc99-9~experimental.9 (2023-02-21) [64] > > > We could perhaps shorten 'experimental' to 'exp', which would leave > > stable security updates with the longest version strings and allow for: > > > alt: #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Tue Mar 21 2023 Debian 9.99.99-9codename9 [59] > > alt: #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Debian 9.99.99-9codename9 (Tue Mar 21 2023) [61] > > > Would anyone like to argue in favour of any particular alternative? > > I will at least make a plea for ISO dates rather than the specific date > format in the last two examples. > > I think my favorite is the last example, with an ISO date (2023-03-21). > Shortening experimental to exp seems like a good idea anyway.
ISO dates are certainly the best. Who really cares that it was a tuesday, and especially since Tue is english, not universal. Never mind that Mar is also a language problem. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130322132931.gb1...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca
