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Fri Apr 24 19:06:57 CEST 2009 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-April/088969.html

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 05:29:29PM +0100, MRAB wrote:
> I've recently subscribed to this list and received my first "Summary of
> Python tracker Issues". What I find annoying are the dates, for example:
>
>     ACTIVITY SUMMARY (04/17/09 - 04/24/09)
>
> 3 x double-digits (have we learned nothing from Y2K? :-)) with the
> _middle_ ones changing fastest!
>
> I know it's the US standard, but Python is global. Could we have an
> 'international' style instead, say, year-month-day:
>
>     ACTIVITY SUMMARY (2009-04-17 - 2009-04-24)

   +1000 from me!

Oleg.
-- 
     Oleg Broytmann            http://phd.pp.ru/            phd at phd.pp.ru
           Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.

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