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.