From: Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com>
Cc: joda@pdc.kth.se (Johan Danielsson),
"Jason R. Mastaler" <jason@mastaler.com>,
"(ding) Gnus Mailing List" <ding@gnus.org>,
XEmacs Beta Discussion List <xemacs-beta-discuss@xemacs.org>
Subject: Re: gnus date suggestion
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 19:11:06 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <QQdbmi06070.199708062311@crystal.WonderWorks.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <oqk9i08cd7.fsf@icule.progiciels-bpi.ca>
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François Pinard writes:
> joda@pdc.kth.se (Johan Danielsson) writes:
>
> | pinard@iro.umontreal.ca (François Pinard) writes:
> |
> | > The usual wrong thing with dates is using local American habits in
> | > wide distribution contexts (like mail and news) for when programs
> | > have *not* been internationalised, or by default. ISO 8601 would be
> | > a good default.
> |
> | Yes, but ISO 8601, although intuitive to me, is not very friendly
> | to people used to other ways of writing dates, such as americans.
>
> You might have been educated by Americans :-).
>
> There are other cultures in this world than the American one.
Have patience. We've only gotten serious about the business of
assimilating/squashing other cultures within the last twenty
years. These things take time. :-)
> The trend is considering that for international matters,
> choices should not always nor necessarily be American by
> default.
True, but there's no reason to antagonize Americans on purpose,
is there? The fact that Americans might be confused is a valid
complaint, isn't it?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-08-06 23:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-01-12 19:12 Jason R. Mastaler
1997-01-12 22:07 ` David Moore
1997-01-15 1:09 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-05-01 14:21 ` Jason R. Mastaler
1997-05-01 21:30 ` François Pinard
1997-05-03 4:17 ` Jason R. Mastaler
1997-05-03 14:53 ` François Pinard
1997-05-03 15:13 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1997-05-03 16:41 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-05-05 6:45 ` Steinar Bang
1997-05-08 12:39 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-05-03 17:31 ` Jason R. Mastaler
1997-08-05 23:07 ` François Pinard
[not found] ` <x73eooi146.fsf@peorth.gweep.net>
1997-08-08 5:43 ` Greg Stark
1997-05-03 15:35 ` Johan Danielsson
1997-08-05 22:59 ` François Pinard
1997-08-06 23:11 ` Kyle Jones [this message]
1997-08-07 16:32 ` Johan Danielsson
1997-10-21 14:04 ` François Pinard
1997-10-21 19:03 ` Jason R Mastaler
1997-10-21 19:59 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
1998-02-08 19:06 ` François Pinard
1998-02-08 19:55 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-08 20:09 ` Kyle Jones
1998-02-09 1:13 ` François Pinard
1998-02-09 10:06 ` Per Abrahamsen
1998-02-09 15:31 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-08 22:53 ` Jason R Mastaler
1998-02-09 3:49 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
1998-02-09 15:49 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-05-03 8:14 ` David Moore
1997-05-04 0:00 ` Ken Raeburn
1997-05-02 4:53 ` Paul Graham
1997-05-02 5:17 ` Jason R. Mastaler
1997-05-03 8:19 ` David Moore
1997-05-03 8:40 ` Steven L Baur
1997-05-03 9:15 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1997-05-03 8:58 ` Per Abrahamsen
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