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- From: T0FG <T0FG@UNB.CA>
- Subject: Re: DTS-0001 proposed standard
- Message-ID: <25JAN93.01640866.0056@UNBVM1.CSD.UNB.CA>
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- Organization: The University of New Brunswick
- References: <24JAN93.01717854.0033@UNBVM1.CSD.UNB.CA> <1juep1INNdhj@life.ai.mit.edu> <C1DqzI.53F@lysator.liu.se>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 05:31:09 GMT
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- In article <C1DqzI.53F@lysator.liu.se> cardell@lysator.liu.se (Mikael Cardell) writes:
- >I fully agree with you concerning standards, but some thing in your
- >message seemed odd. Like your way of writing dates. The ISO stanard
- >dfor this is YYYYMMDD and, if intended for human readers, YYYY-MM-DD
- >not DAY MON YEAR as you suggested.
-
- I will raise the issue of date order again. I have since come
- across ISO documents concerning the intentions of having the
- YYYYMMDD format, and it would appear to be easy to implement the ISO
- standard format in human readable format without breaking the
- American (read non-Canadian) style proposed in that document.
-
- That and the mail address and mail subject line issues. Of
- particular interest to me, is how are mailers in the Unix
- environment interfaced to BBS software (ie. how is the data
- concerning user mail addresses, etc. handled?)
-
- Will.
-
-
- ---------------------------------------- William Burrow
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