Nov. 8, 1999
4:27 p.m.
"Clive D.W. Feather" wrote on 1999-11-08 16:06 UTC:
%x equivalent to ``%m/%d/%y''.
Great. The second most horrible numeric date notation in the Western World has now found its way onto holy ISO C paper, in the 13th year (anus horribilis? :) after the publication of ISO 8601. (The most horrible one comes of course also from our American friends: Copyright years given in roman numerals in the trailers of Hollywood movies.) Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>