Re: gnus date suggestion

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

[Hi, people.  Sorry if this is a duplicate.  The message bounced.]

jason@mastaler.com (Jason R. Mastaler) writes:

| > > Don't you think it would be more standard and helpful for gnus to
| > > display the day of the week in the "Date" mail header by default?
| > >
| > > Gnus =       Date: 12 Jan 1997 13:17:58 -0500
| > > MH/Mozilla = Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 14:06:24 -0500
| > > ELM/Pine =   Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 14:08:29 -0500 (EST)

| Did anything ever come of these suggestions and propositions?
| I still think the Gnus "Date:" header format is non-standard.
| I also noticed VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid doesn't have this
| limitation.
| 
| Gnus = Date: 01 May 1997 09:40:20 -0400
| VM   = Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 09:53:01 -0400 (EDT)

The nice thing (?) is that we have so many standards to chose from.
Some are definitely more more questionable than others, and using local
American dates for international mail has always been and is still very
questionable.  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.

For example, Gnus should ideally display dates as:

	Date: 1997-01-12 13:17:58-05:00

A lot of people over the world (and even some people in United States :-)
are rather comfortable with this.

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François Pinard                                 pinard@iro.umontreal.ca
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