[oclug] Maintaining config files for various servers

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 10:48:10PM +0100, Mark Harrison wrote:
> The 2004-07-27-1 (the final -1 is the first dump on that day) is
> deliberately in Japanese format so that an alphabetical listing will sort in
> order. Personally, I find this useful.

That's ISO date format [1], not specifically Japanese.  I tend to use it
myself as it's unambiguous for both Europeans and $%^& North Americans
with their infernal middle-endian date order.

[1] ISO 8601 for the interested.  http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html

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