[Edbrowse-dev] date format

[Edbrowse-dev] date format

[Karl Dahlke]

As we know, output in all of edbrowse is made to read fast
and/or take up little space on a braille display.  Concise.
lsp isn't going to give permission bits in that damn annoying format
rwxr-xr-x  no no no, just 755.
So with this in mind my date time format is pretty concise
09/09/1960 07:05
but is there something equally concise but more readable?
I might prefer
sep 9 1960 07:05
My brain doesn't have to twist around the slashes and remember that 09 is september.
The same routine is shared between this feature and the mail clients
that present emails concisely, subject date size.

Karl Dahlke

Re: [Edbrowse-dev] date format

[Adam Thompson]

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On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 06:29:34PM -0400, Karl Dahlke wrote:
> As we know, output in all of edbrowse is made to read fast
> and/or take up little space on a braille display.  Concise.
> lsp isn't going to give permission bits in that damn annoying format
> rwxr-xr-x  no no no, just 755.
> So with this in mind my date time format is pretty concise
> 09/09/1960 07:05
> but is there something equally concise but more readable?
> I might prefer
> sep 9 1960 07:05
> My brain doesn't have to twist around the slashes and remember that 09 is september.
> The same routine is shared between this feature and the mail clients
> that present emails concisely, subject date size.

Personally I prefer 1960-09-09 07:05
For example the time I'm writing this would be:
2015-09-25 22:49:07
As a UK resident I always find the 09/09/1960 format massively ambiguous (are
we talking US or UK ordering, in US it's mm/dd/yyyy and in UK it's dd/mm/yyyy).

Cheers,
Adam.

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