From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/13849 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Per Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: gnus date suggestion Date: 09 Feb 1998 11:06:20 +0100 Organization: The Church of Emacs 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=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035153141 11491 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:32:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:32:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "(ding) Gnus Mailing List" , XEmacs Beta Discussion List 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 CAA23901 for ; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 02:10:17 -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 EAA25275 for ; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 04:07:17 -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 EAN04861; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 04:43:43 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 09 Feb 1998 04:06:46 -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 EAA19696 for ; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 04:06:34 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 11511 invoked by uid 504); 9 Feb 1998 10:06:29 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 11508 invoked from network); 9 Feb 1998 10:06:28 -0000 Original-Received: from elc1.dina.kvl.dk (130.225.40.228) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 9 Feb 1998 10:06:27 -0000 Original-Received: from zuse.dina.kvl.dk (zuse.dina.kvl.dk [130.225.40.245]) by elc1.dina.kvl.dk (8.6.12/8.6.4) with ESMTP id LAA29404; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 11:06:21 +0100 Original-Received: (abraham@localhost) by zuse.dina.kvl.dk (8.6.12/8.6.4) id LAA03408; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 11:06:21 +0100 Original-To: François Pinard X-Face: +kRV2]2q}lixHkE{U)mY#+6]{AH=yN~S9@IFiOa@X6?GM|8MBp/ In-Reply-To: François Pinard's message of 08 Feb 1998 20:13:16 -0500 Original-Lines: 29 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.2 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13849 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13849 François Pinard writes: > It would also be nice if software was offering to display dates as > ISO dates, would it imply a conversion at display time. A `Wash Dates' > feature, in Gnus terms :-). I suspect if you submit a patch with an iso-wash-date function, Lars will add it to Gnus with no fuss. > > Sure. But we have a situation where all current software supports > > RFC822 Date headers, and parsing those headers aren't all that difficult. > > Parsing by software? Yes, no problem there. RFC 822 date headers are not easy to parse by software. Both news and mail format standards are up for revision currently. You can participate in the work simply be subscribing to the proper mailing lists. For news, it is I don't know the address for the new mail format standard, but I'm sure someone here does. In an uncommon strike of common sense, the current suggestion for date header in the comming news standard is "whatever the mail guys come up with". ISO 8601 has been suggested, but they news people wisely decided to leave that battle for the mail group.