Re: Bug#798714: debian-policy: Please explicitly recommend punctuation between the year, month and day components of date based version numbers

Arnt Karlsen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.curiosa
Organization ..ing.Arnt.Karlsen
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On Sat, 26 Sep 2015 13:39:19 +0200, Wouter wrote in message 
<[email protected]>:

> [mind CC change]
> 
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 02:09:22PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> > (Along the same lines, I expect anything of the form XX/YY/ZZ to be
> > a M/D/Y date until proven wrong because 99% of US dates are written
> > that way.)
> 
> Then don't ever learn Dutch. XX/YY/ZZ is very much in use in
> dutch-speaking areas, and refers to DMY dates.
> 
> . as a date separator is awful.
 
..riiight, don't ever learn Norwegian.  ;o)
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