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[<b><a href="http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/">GLEP Index</a></b>] |
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[<b><a href="http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0045.txt">GLEP Source</a></b>] |
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Title:</th><td class="field-body">GLEP date format</td> |
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Last-Modified:</th><td class="field-body"><a class="reference" href="http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/proj/en/glep/glep-0045.txt?cvsroot=gentoo">2005/12/13 22:42:27</a></td> |
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<p>This GLEP proposes using an ISO-8601 compliant date format in GLEPs.</p> |
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format <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yyyy-mm-dd</span></tt> (e.g. 2001-08-14). This format is international |
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<p>An overview of the ISO-8601 specification is available online |
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<a class="footnote-reference" href="#iso-8601" id="id1" name="id1">[1]</a>. Note that only the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yyyy-mm-dd</span></tt> subset of the ISO-8601 |
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