Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site hou3c.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!Rick.Gumpertz@CMU-CS-A.ARPA From: Rick.Gumpertz@CMU-CS-A.ARPA (Richard H. Gumpertz) Newsgroups: net.mail.msggroup Subject: Re: user interfaces (identifier date time) Message-ID: <05Apr84.131604.RG02@CMU-CS-A.ARPA> Date: Thu, 5-Apr-84 13:16:00 EST Article-I.D.: hou3c.444 Posted: Thu Apr 5 13:16:00 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 7-Apr-84 03:50:38 EST Sender: ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist) Lines: 10 To: Kirk Kelley Cc: MsgGroup@Brl-Aos.ARPA In-Reply-To: <[OFFICE-2.ARPA]TYM-KIRK-4F39R> The ANSI/ISO date standard isn't all that much longer. Why not use it? 840402 is just one digit longer 84093 is the same length (last 3 digits are day-of-year) but hard to decode The date may be extended with a time, such as 8404020557, without ambiguity, but some punctuation might make it a bit more readable. In any case, LOTS of people are now using the standard, so why re-invent the wheel? Make it readable by the uninitiated! Rick Gumpertz