[Coco] ftp.maltedmedia

David dbree at duo-county.com
Tue Nov 18 17:16:00 EST 2003


On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 03:29:38PM +1000, Bob Devries wrote:
> Roger said:
> > folder at once and name it something like "portal9_111603.zip".
> 
> Um, could you use YYMMDD just to keep it a bit more internationally
> readable?
> Please? You have no idea how frustrating it is to try to work out dates when
> different people use either MMDDYY, DDMMYY or some other combination.
> 
> Not that I'm picking on you guys, but.... :-)

In addition to the readability, YYMMDD sorts alphabetically, too.  FWIW,
if your "dir" or "ls" or whatever sorts alphabetically, the files will
show up in chronological order.



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