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From: Barry Margolin on 17 Jan 2010 20:08
In article <jollyroger-05D7FD.14065017012010(a)news.individual.net>,
Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote:

> In article
> <wayne.morris-C9E843.12220117012010(a)news.eternal-september.org>,
> "Wayne C. Morris" <wayne.morris(a)this.is.invalid> wrote:
>
> > In article <hiu1gc$t98$2(a)news.eternal-september.org>,
> > shine <useraddshine-nospam(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Michelle Steiner took to the world wide interwebs to proclaim:
> > > > Secondly, is there any other punctuation mark, other than the colon
> > > > (and
> > > > leading period), that cannot be used in a file name?
> > >
> > > Um, why would you want to use punctuation marks in a file name? Just to
> > > be
> > > difficult?
> >
> > You might want to include dates in a sortable format:
> >
> > Quarterly Report 2009/01/01 - 2009/03/31
> > 2009/07/16 - Suzie's birthday party
>
> For date sorting, I use these formats all the time:
>
> YYYYMMDD
> YYYY-MM-DD
>
> Works great.

The dash is a punctuation mark.

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From: VAXman- on 17 Jan 2010 20:14
In article <barmar-0FC0FE.20081317012010(a)nothing.attdns.com>, Barry Margolin <barmar(a)alum.mit.edu> writes:
>In article <hiu1gc$t98$2(a)news.eternal-september.org>,
> shine <useraddshine-nospam(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Michelle Steiner took to the world wide interwebs to proclaim:
>> > Secondly, is there any other
>> > punctuation mark, other than the colon (and leading period), that cannot be
>> > used in a file name?
>>
>> Um, why would you want to use punctuation marks in a file name? Just to
>> be difficult?
>
>It's not uncommon to include dates in filenames. E.g. "Expenses
>1/16/2010".

First day of the sixteenth month, gotcha.

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From: Jochem Huhmann on 17 Jan 2010 20:26
Barry Margolin <barmar(a)alum.mit.edu> writes:

>> > You might want to include dates in a sortable format:
>> >
>> > Quarterly Report 2009/01/01 - 2009/03/31
>> > 2009/07/16 - Suzie's birthday party
>>
>> For date sorting, I use these formats all the time:
>>
>> YYYYMMDD
>> YYYY-MM-DD
>>
>> Works great.
>
> The dash is a punctuation mark.

It's one that works in all file systemy, though. And YYYY-MM-DD has the
advantage of not only being easily sortable but also being an actual ISO
standard (ISO 8601) and pretty much unambiguous in most of the world.
And commonly used in internal/formal date definitions in software and
data formats.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601


Jochem

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From: JF Mezei on 17 Jan 2010 21:36
Barry Margolin wrote:
>
> The dash is a punctuation mark.
>

Question: aren't punctuation marks used to pace and separate groups of
words ? In such a definition, while "-" is not an alpha numeric
character, it is not a "punctuation".
From: JF Mezei on 17 Jan 2010 21:39
VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:

>>1/16/2010".
>
> First day of the sixteenth month, gotcha.


No, the 2010th day of the 16th month of year 1.
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