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Change date format to ISO 8601

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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.
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Wladimir J. van der Laan
2014-04-05 13:46:56 +02:00
parent ad078df048
commit 1647c7e6d3
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@@ -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Withdrawn | Final | Superseded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* Superseded-By: 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.