Dates in Wine announcement

Jeremy Newman jnewman at codeweavers.com
Thu Jan 8 10:46:13 CST 2009


I had already coded that in:
http://www.winehq.org/announce/latest

I'll put a redirect in for the old URL.

IneedAname wrote:
> On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:33:21 +1100
> Peter Urbanec <winehq.org at urbanec.net> wrote:
> 
>> Speaking of dates... My pet peeve is seeing ambiguous dates such as
>> 2/1/08. To me (and most of the world), that looks like 2nd Jan 2008, but
>> it appears that millions of people in the USA see it as 1st Feb 2008.
>> So, in the interest of disambiguation, I'd like to see human readable
>> dates with the month either fully spelled out or using a three letter
>> abbreviation. Date formats that are intended to be parsed by machines
>> are best represented as 2008-01-23, so that they are collated correctly
>> when sorted by a simple lexicographical routine.
>>
>> Cheers.
> 
> If we had the date please spell it out in full. Then we all are on the same page world over.
> Wednesday, 07 January 2009
> 
> Can you bring back the link to the newest version of wine.
> E.G. link http://www.winehq.org/?announce=latest to http://www.winehq.org/announce/1.1.12
> This did work before the website had its make over.
> 
> 



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