From: joda@pdc.kth.se (Johan Danielsson)
Cc: "Jason R. Mastaler" <jason@mastaler.com>,
"(ding) Gnus Mailing List" <ding@gnus.org>,
XEmacs Beta Discussion List <xemacs-beta-discuss@xemacs.org>
Subject: Re: gnus date suggestion
Date: 03 May 1997 17:35:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xof911wpnz5.fsf@blubb.pdc.kth.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: pinard@iro.umontreal.ca's message of 03 May 1997 10:53:27 -0400
pinard@iro.umontreal.ca (François Pinard) writes:
> 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.
Yes, but ISO 8601, although intuitive to me, is not very friendly to
people used to other ways of writing dates, such as americans.
The usual question with all-numbers date formats, "is 1997-05-03 the
third of May or the fifth of March", is the same question I always ask
when I see 05/03/97 (or is it 03/05/97?).
The best (IMO) way to write dates that should be understood by an
international audience is something like 1997-Mar-03, which pretty
much leaves us with RFC-822.
/Johan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-05-03 15:35 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 [this message]
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
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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