From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/13831 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: gnus date suggestion Date: 08 Feb 1998 20:55:27 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035153126 11401 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:32:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:32:06 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA05722 for ; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 12:43:33 -0800 Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA12996 for ; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 14:40:22 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAN02703; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 15:16:46 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 08 Feb 1998 14:38:42 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA10594 for ; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 14:38:22 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 9036 invoked by uid 504); 8 Feb 1998 20:38:18 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 9029 invoked from network); 8 Feb 1998 20:38:16 -0000 Original-Received: from xyplex34.uio.no (HELO sparky.gnus.org) (129.240.154.54) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 8 Feb 1998 20:38:15 -0000 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by sparky.gnus.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA06102; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 21:41:14 +0100 Mail-Copies-To: never Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: François Pinard's message of "08 Feb 1998 14:06:05 -0500" X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.24/XEmacs 19.15 X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ 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