[phobos] datetime review (new attempt at URL)

Denis 2korden at gmail.com
Thu Oct 14 12:54:41 PDT 2010


On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Steve Schveighoffer
<schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Can we agree to print a
> date/time out like this:
>
> [mm/dd/yyyy] [hh:mm:ss.ffffffff]
>
> Where mm is month, dd is day, yyyy is 4-digit year, hh is 24-hour hour, mm is
> minute, ss is second, and ffffff is fractional seconds.
>

This is actually very locale-specific. E.g. here in Russia we use
dd/mm/yyyy (I'm used to it and it seems pretty logic - the order is
ascending), and thus when I see 5/6/2010 I always confuse if it's May,
6 or June, 5.


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