From: Jason R Mastaler <jason@4b.org>
Cc: Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com>,
joda@pdc.kth.se (Johan Danielsson),
"(ding) Gnus Mailing List" <ding@gnus.org>,
XEmacs Beta Discussion List <xemacs-beta-discuss@xemacs.org>
Subject: Re: gnus date suggestion
Date: 21 Oct 1997 13:03:10 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x7bu0jvt01.fsf@4b.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois?= Pinard's message of "21 Oct 1997 10:04:00 -0400"
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François Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> The purpose has never been to antagonize Americans, but to use
> international dates rather than American dates in software meant to be
> use all around the planet. Software like Gnus, say! :-)
>
> Complaints may be valid, of course, but they loose part of their validity
> if they inhibit progress. The fact that American dates are confusing or
> not very acceptable in some countries is also a valid complaint, and this
> latter complaint is more prone to triggering real progress.
This thread never seems to die. 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."
Why are you still picking on Gnus?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-10-21 19:03 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 [this message]
1997-10-21 19:59 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
1998-02-08 19:06 ` François Pinard
1998-02-08 19:55 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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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