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From: FELLOWS@UNB.CA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k
Subject: Re: /dev/clock
Message-ID: <ID5975.D900913.T210646.FELLOWS@UNB.CA>
Date: 14 Sep 90 00:06:45 GMT
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On  Thu, 13 Sep 90 16:32:56 EDT  Phil Budne <phil@Shiva.COM> writes:

> I think /dev/clock should accept and return the date in "mmddyyhhmmss"
> format. Down with hardware dependant formats!!
>
> -p
If we are going to a standard hardware independent date format,
_I_ think we should use the International Standard format
   yyyymmddhhmmss
At least that is unambiguous and who knows, there may be some pc532s
still allive in 2000.

Dave Fellows