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| author | Wladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com> | 2014-04-05 13:46:56 +0200 |
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| committer | Wladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com> | 2014-04-05 13:46:56 +0200 |
| commit | 1647c7e6d3e3866454b803fd874df2d0c4991f4a (patch) | |
| tree | cf76da44135d39126a9f757fc3d92eb4a9663550 /bip-0001.mediawiki | |
| parent | ad078df048726604cccc1cff70ce952815913605 (diff) | |
Change date format to ISO 8601
This came up on the mailing list.
yyyy-mm-dd (ISO 8601) is the internationally accepted format for numeric
dates. This commit changes all BIPs to use that instead of dd-mm-yyyy.
It also updates BIP 0001 to prescribe the new format.
Diffstat (limited to 'bip-0001.mediawiki')
| -rw-r--r-- | bip-0001.mediawiki | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/bip-0001.mediawiki b/bip-0001.mediawiki index adfa60d..c9857a8 100644 --- a/bip-0001.mediawiki +++ b/bip-0001.mediawiki @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Title: BIP Purpose and Guidelines Status: Accepted Type: Standards Track - Created: 19-08-2011 + Created: 2011-08-19 </pre> ==What is a BIP?== @@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ Each BIP must begin with an RFC 822 style header preamble. The headers must appe Status: <Draft | Active | Accepted | Deferred | Rejected | Withdrawn | Final | Superseded> Type: <Standards Track | Informational | Process> - Created: <date created on, in dd-mm-yyyy format> + Created: <date created on, in ISO 8601 (yyyy-mm-dd) format> * Post-History: <dates of postings to bitcoin mailing list> * Replaces: <BIP number> * Superseded-By: <BIP number> @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ While a BIP is in private discussions (usually during the initial Draft phase), The Type header specifies the type of BIP: Standards Track, Informational, or Process. -The Created header records the date that the BIP was assigned a number, while Post-History is used to record the dates of when new versions of the BIP are posted to bitcoin mailing lists. Both headers should be in dd-mmm-yyyy format, e.g. 14-Aug-2001. +The Created header records the date that the BIP was assigned a number, while Post-History is used to record the dates of when new versions of the BIP are posted to bitcoin mailing lists. Both headers should be in yyyy-mm-dd format, e.g. 2001-08-14. BIPs may have a Requires header, indicating the BIP numbers that this BIP depends on. |