| -----Original Message-----
| From: 喕vind A. Holm
|
| I just regenerated some documentation in a project of mine using the
| DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.75.2, and noticed that the
| generated date at
| the man page is in the US date format:
|
| .\" Date: 04/25/2010
|
| [...]
|
| .TH "GPST" "1" "04/25/2010" "[FIXME: source]" "[FIXME: manual]"
|
| This is ambiguous and prone to errors when the date is for example
| "01/02/03". Is it 2003-02-01, 2003-01-02, or even 2001-02-03?
|
| The correct thing to do here, is to use the [international date
| format][1], using yyyy-mm-dd instead of mm/dd/yy or dd/mm/yy.
Even though the default may not be to your liking, at least it is fairly
easy to customize the date format. The gentext machinery is described here:
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/CustomGentext.html.
The default "datetime" context in common/en.xml looks like this:
<l:context name="datetime"><l:template name="format"
text="m/d/Y"/></l:context>
In your customization layer, replace "m/d/Y" with "Y-m-d".
Mauritz
