Re: [RFC/PATCH] date parsing: be friendlier to our European friends.

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On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 03:39:35PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> This does three things, only applies to cases where the user
> manually tries to override the author/commit time by environment
> variables, with non-ISO, non-2822 format date-string:
> 
>  - Refuses to use the interpretation to put the date in the
>    future; recent kernel history has a commit made with
>    10/03/2006 which is recorded as October 3rd.
> 
>  - Adds '.' as the possible year-month-date separator.  We
>    learned from our European friends on the #git channel that
>    dd.mm.yyyy is the norm there.

I my company we have always used yyyy-mm-dd - this is an ISO standard
IIRC. The company is European based.

mm/dd/yy has always made my head spin ;-)

	Sam
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