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Re: [JDEV] date format
Actually, I beleive that there is a standard as part of the SMTP message formating RFC that we should probrably stick to.. I'll dig up the actual standard..
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Thomas Charron
On Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:51:26 Jerrad Pierce wrote:
>I would suggest going with the following, the logical ordering of increasing
>granularity. And to prevent a year 10K problem, the date field should be
>parsed by taking the right 2 bytes for day, next 2 for month, rest as year :-P
>
>date (@ UTC)
>yyyymmdd
>
>time (in UTC of course)
>hhmmss
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