Re: gnus date suggestion

[pinard@iro.umontreal.ca (François Pinard)]

"Jason R. Mastaler" <jason@mastaler.com> writes:

| pinard@iro.umontreal.ca (François Pinard) writes:
| 
| > I seriously suggest that we switch to ISO 8601, which is a much more
| > sounded standard, and truly international.  Take a look at:
| > 	http://www.ft.uni-erlangen.de/~mskuhn/iso-time.html.

| David Moore originally had a suggestion of making this customizable
| with a format for displaying article times.  I think this should appeal
| TO everyone.

Lars has always shown vivid interest in internationalisation of Gnus.

Internationalising a program is preparing it so it can later be localised
for various habits and countries.  We should well identify if a program (or
part of a program) has been internationalised.  Those programs (or parts)
could then easily be bent to national habits, if not even personal taste.

In widely distributed programs, and for those parts *not* having been
internationalised, international standards should always prevail over
national standards.  Moreover, such international standards should also be
selected even for internationalised parts, when localisation information
has not been provided or otherwise selected by users.

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.

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François Pinard                                 pinard@iro.umontreal.ca
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