From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/10860 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: joda@pdc.kth.se (Johan Danielsson) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: gnus date suggestion Date: 03 May 1997 17:35:58 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.103) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035150661 26823 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:51:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:51:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Jason R. Mastaler" , "(ding) Gnus Mailing List" , XEmacs Beta Discussion List Return-Path: Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA15108 for ; Sat, 3 May 1997 08:46:09 -0700 Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Sat, 3 May 1997 17:36:25 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 23675 invoked by uid 504); 3 May 1997 15:34:10 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 23672 invoked from network); 3 May 1997 15:34:09 -0000 Original-Received: from blubb.pdc.kth.se (130.237.225.158) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 3 May 1997 15:34:09 -0000 Original-Received: from joda by blubb.pdc.kth.se with local (Exim 1.60 #3) id 0wNgqt-0007mZ-00; Sat, 3 May 1997 17:35:59 +0200 Original-To: pinard@iro.umontreal.ca (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois?= Pinard) In-Reply-To: pinard@iro.umontreal.ca's message of 03 May 1997 10:53:27 -0400 Original-Lines: 19 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.24/Emacs 19.34 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by deanna.miranova.com id IAA15108 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:10860 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:10860 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