From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/11861 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: 07 Aug 1997 18:32:59 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI MIME-Edit 0.77) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035151502 424 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:05:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:05:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois?= Pinard , "Jason R. Mastaler" , "(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 (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id KAA06540 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 10:50:57 -0700 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA01063 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 12:46:42 -0500 (CDT) 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 ; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 18:34:04 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 8936 invoked by uid 504); 7 Aug 1997 16:34:02 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 8933 invoked from network); 7 Aug 1997 16:34:01 -0000 Original-Received: from blubb.pdc.kth.se (193.10.159.47) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 7 Aug 1997 16:34:01 -0000 Original-Received: from joda by blubb.pdc.kth.se with local (Exim 1.62 #1) id 0wwVUi-0001QN-00; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 18:33:00 +0200 Original-To: Kyle Jones X-Emacs: 19.34 In-Reply-To: Kyle Jones's message of Wed, 6 Aug 1997 19:11:06 -0400 (EDT) Original-Lines: 25 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.52/Emacs 19.34 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:11861 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:11861 Kyle Jones writes: > Have patience. We've only gotten serious about the business of > assimilating/squashing other cultures within the last twenty > years. These things take time. :-) It would be nice if you could invent a culture of your own, before starting to squash other's. ;-) > > The trend is considering that for international matters, > > choices should not always nor necessarily be American by > > default. > > True, but there's no reason to antagonize Americans on purpose, > is there? The fact that Americans might be confused is a valid > complaint, isn't it? Right. The way to write dates in a non-decreasing order is not an american invention either. The traditional way to write short dates in Sweden in is 7/8-97, for todays date. 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. /Johan