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--></style></head><body><div data-externalstyle="false" dir="ltr" style="font-family:Calibri,'Segoe UI',Meiryo,'Microsoft YaHei UI','Microsoft JhengHei UI','Malgun Gothic','Khmer UI','Nirmala UI',Tunga,'Lao UI',Ebrima,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><div>Sure, but this is in web page text only meant to be read by human beings, not in some parse-able data that’s actually important for anything.</div><div> </div><div data-signatureblock="true"> </div><div style="padding-top: 5px; border-top-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid;"><div><font face="Calibri, 'Segoe UI', Meiryo, 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', 'Khmer UI', 'Nirmala UI', Tunga, 'Lao UI', Ebrima, sans-serif" style='line-height: 15pt; letter-spacing: 0.02em; font-family: Calibri, "Segoe UI", Meiryo, "Microsoft YaHei UI", "Microsoft JhengHei UI", "Malgun Gothic", "Khmer UI", "Nirmala UI", Tunga, "Lao UI", Ebrima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;'><b>From:</b> Alan W. Irwin<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 24, 2013 11:20 AM<br><b>To:</b> David Cole<br><b>Cc:</b> cmake@cmake.org; Rolf Eike Beer</font></div></div><div> </div>On 2013-04-24 12:02-0000 David Cole wrote:<br><br>> Hey, hey, now.<br>><br>><br>> Both orderings are reasonable translations of spoken word conventions into a numerical representation. Just because we say “April 24th” rather than “24th of April” doesn’t make it idiotic...<br>><br>><br>> Be nice. We’re sensitive over here.<br><br>Hi David:<br><br>My own feeling is civil dates are way too idiosyncratic to be<br>used in conjunction with anything (such as software releases)<br>that are to be used internationally.<br><br>Fortunately there is an alternative which almost everybody understands<br>at first glance which are ISO dates (YYYY-MM-DD, see<br>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_dates). For this reason I always use<br>ISO dates whenever possible. For example, my alpine mailer (and most<br>software that expresses dates) has a configurable option to use ISO<br>dates (see the date/time above just before David's name which was<br>generated automatically in ISO form by alpine). I assume Kitware<br>already uses ISO dates in a lot of places so when Kitware users find<br>an exception as now, I hope Kitware fixes that issue.<br><br>Alan<br>__________________________<br>Alan W. Irwin<br><br>Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,<br>University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).<br><br>Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state<br>implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time<br>Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting<br>software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project<br>(unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net);<br>and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net).<br>__________________________<br><br>Linux-powered Science<br>__________________________<br></div></body></html>