From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7763 invoked by alias); 23 May 2008 22:54:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 7616 invoked by uid 48); 23 May 2008 22:53:41 -0000 Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 22:54:00 -0000 Message-ID: <20080523225341.7615.qmail@sourceware.org> X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC References: Subject: [Bug preprocessor/30867] Can we have a new __DATE__ which is sortable, eg YYYY-MM-DD In-Reply-To: Reply-To: gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org To: gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org From: "andrew_dowden at softdesign dot net dot nz" Mailing-List: contact gcc-bugs-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-bugs-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2008-05/txt/msg01817.txt.bz2 ------- Comment #5 from andrew_dowden at softdesign dot net dot nz 2008-05-23 22:53 ------- Strongly agree, can not change existing use/std. as relates to C89/C90 etc. Would also suggest (as minor alternative): __DATEI__ date index-order, numeric, sort friendly; also US-military, etc.. output: yyyymmdd eg. 20080524 __DATEI-EN__ date index-order, non-ambiguous, English(US/GB) output: yyyy-Mmm-dd eg. 2008-May-24 __DATEI-FR__ date index-order, non-ambiguous, Français(FR) output: yyyy-Mmm-dd eg. 2008-Mai-24 __DATEI-DE__ date index-order, non-ambiguous, Deutsch(D) ETC.. __TIMEI__ time index-order, 24HR, sort friendly output: hh:mm:ss eg. 10:53:14 __TIMEN__ time index-order, 24HR, numeric, sort friendly output: hhmmss eg. 105314 -- andrew_dowden at softdesign dot net dot nz changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |andrew_dowden at softdesign | |dot net dot nz http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30867