[Coco] Re: ftp.maltedmedia

[Roger Taylor]

At 08:33 PM 11/17/2003 -0900, you wrote:
>On 11/18/03, Roger Taylor wrote:
>
> > I have actually not seen too many references to dates being in the reverse
> > order of YYMMDD, even though I can understand that left-most means
> > most-significant to some people. It's just that the U.S.'s standard is
> > DDMMYY, in almost every case, except military, which you might see as 07
> > JUN 1968, or similar.
>
>Genrally OS-9 uses YYMMDD dates.  In addition if using numeric dates
>on computers we generally use YYMMDD or YYJJJ.  One of the big
>advantages it that directory commands which sort by file name will
>order these kinds of dates sequentially whereas other date formats
>need to be recognized as such to be ordered properly.

True.  Maybe one day everybody in the world will adopt a standard.

Directories do sort very nicely by date using the order YYYYMMDD because of 
the common order of left-right significance.

They will sort just as well if the date is YYYY-MM-DD or even (YYYY-MM-DD).



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