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by ckdot2 944 days ago
Use human readable dates:

Every blog post should include a human readable date. In fact, this extends to almost anything online and even offline. Timestamps are hard to read.

Use date and time:

Every blog post should include the time it has been created. In fact, this extends to almost anything online and even offline. I was reading Jan Kremers post about blog timestamps and it was not immediately clear to me what time the post was created. Only when I did a look into the HTML source I discovered the time there.

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I went back to RCS ($Id$) for my blog text files, so by default I get it all in UTC. That is the one thing I hate about git, it does not allow you to tag the file with ci information. So RCS tags my entries automatically.

But a non issue to me these days, I moved away from git due to changes Microsoft made after it purchased github. I am back "home" to RCS and anon ftp.