2008/1/25, James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> John W. Kennedy wrote:
> > Lindsay Graham wrote:
> >> Thank you, Henri and Cor.  There are none so blind as those who will
> >> not see!!  I just did not see the year tucked away at the extreme end
> >> of the line!
> >>
> >> Why on earth are the date and time shown in such a non-standard way?
> >> Why not "Mon 1 Jul 2002 19:02:56 +0000" which is so much easier to
> >> interpret?
> >
> > I don't know why, but it's the native time format of C, so it's found
> > all over the place.
> >
> Of course the best alternative is to follow the ISO standard, where date
> & time are displayed in order of decreasing signficance.  i.e. YYYY MM
> DD hh mm ss etc.


Agreed !...

Henri

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