[Coco] ftp.maltedmedia

[John W. Linville]

David wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 03:29:38PM +1000, Bob Devries wrote:

>>Um, could you use YYMMDD just to keep it a bit more internationally
>>readable?

> 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.

This is probably a better argument than "That's the way the French do 
it..." :-)

As long as we are proposing changes, how about YYYYMMDD instead?  That 
(e.g. file-20030104) will be more clear than file-030104 would be...

John