[CMake] Date issue on www.cmake.org

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2013-04-24 12:02-0000 David Cole wrote:

> Hey, hey, now.
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> 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...
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> Be nice. We’re sensitive over here.

Hi David:

My own feeling is civil dates are way too idiosyncratic to be
used in conjunction with anything (such as software releases)
that are to be used internationally.

Fortunately there is an alternative which almost everybody understands
at first glance which are ISO dates (YYYY-MM-DD, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_dates).  For this reason I always use
ISO dates whenever possible.  For example, my alpine mailer (and most
software that expresses dates) has a configurable option to use ISO
dates (see the date/time above just before David's name which was
generated automatically in ISO form by alpine).  I assume Kitware
already uses ISO dates in a lot of places so when Kitware users find
an exception as now, I hope Kitware fixes that issue.

Alan
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