On Fri, 07 Apr 2006, Jason Boyer wrote:
> As far as the date is concerned, it's very easy to for software to parse
> %Y$d%m%H%M%S, and I think that it's not too hard for most people, since it's
> basically the date(1) syntax.

I hope you meant %Y%m%d, not %Y%d%m.

I like ISO 8601 format: "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z".  (OK, strictly speaking
ISO 8601 wants a literal "T" between the date and the time, but that's
too ugly for me.)

--apb (Alan Barrett)