From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: gnus date suggestion
Date: 08 Feb 1998 20:55:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m37m757txs.fsf@sparky.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: François Pinard's message of "08 Feb 1998 14:06:05 -0500"
François Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> > As Johan Danielsson said two months ago when this was last brought up,
> > "Enough of this now. The way to write dates in mail messages is defined
> > by RFC822. If anyone want's to change this, just write a new RFC."
>
> I quite understand that some people do not even want to hear that there is
> a problem. There is a problem nevertheless.
Sure. But we have a situation where all current software supports
RFC822 Date headers, and parsing those headers aren't all that
difficult. So we have something that 1) works, and 2) is widely used,
so there is no impetus for change.
Whenever I store times/dates externally, I use ISO 8601 (uhm, I think
I just forgot the name of the standard) dates, because it's such a
nice standard. Not to use it for new things is just silly. However,
it does not therefore follow that one should try to redesign most of
the common universe for little real gain.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-02-08 19:55 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
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 [this message]
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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