A quick story from work. What happens when 5 programmers decide that all the log files for their programs should have timestamps?
The programming of 5 different formats of timestamps of course,
26-Aug-09 15:45:20
03:40:53 PM
[Aug 26 15:44:00 2009]
08262009_15.45.12
[2009-08-26T15:43:15]
No wonder they say standardization and communication are such good things.
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