From 1647c7e6d3e3866454b803fd874df2d0c4991f4a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Wladimir J. van der Laan" <laanwj@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2014 13:46:56 +0200
Subject: 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.
---
 bip-0001.mediawiki | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

(limited to 'bip-0001.mediawiki')

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            Withdrawn | Final | Superseded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 * Superseded-By: 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.
 
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