Hello all,

Maybe the Devs can discuss this during the March 7th, 2022 Monthly Video Conference meeting?


Could we create an IPFire standard for units of transfer speed?  And for format of dates?  

These standards would be used mostly within the WebGUI.  And hopefully on the Wiki, Community and all other IPFire entities.


Speed 
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Ask: Pick Mbps (or maybe Mbit/s) as the official standard for IPFire.

This is a capital `M` for Mega and not a small `m` for milli.

Suggest a maximum of three decimal places (digits to right of decimal point).

Mbps would replace other unit seen like kbit/s, Mbit/s in Traffic In/Out (example Traffic: In  255.70 kbit/s   Out 5.49 Mbit/s).  



Date
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Ask: Pick a date format of yyyy-mm-dd as the official standard for IPFire.

I've seen dates like mm/dd/yyyy and dd/mm/yyyy.  



Other Standards  
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Should data units be reviewed?  as MB (Megabytes) and not KiB.


I can add some images if it helps, but I am guessing it is not needed.


See: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/standards.png


Thank you!
Jon