Re: Origins of DATE command

Brian Kantor <brian@nothing.ucsd.edu> Mon, 15 July 1996 03:58 UTC

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From: Brian Kantor <brian@nothing.ucsd.edu>
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To: tal@plts.org
Subject: Re: Origins of DATE command
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>YYYYMMDDHHMM

I think we wound up suggesting ISO8601 (?) format in one of the drafts

	YYYYMMDDHHMMSS[.sss]

	e.g., 19960714210000.000

the nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from

	- Brian