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From: "Stefan Müller" <warrence.stm@gmx.de>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: \date format according to ISO 8601
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 13:38:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D47FEE1.5080302@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110201000337.718d7fa2@glyph>

Hi,

I wouldn't like the idea of displaying \date in ISO 8601 format. I'd 
rather prefer the human-readable version. The ISO 8601 is a standard for 
"exchange of date and time-related data" [1], not for text documents 
made for humans to read.

How to get what you want is explained here [2], I think. HTH.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
[2] http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Reference/en/date

Best regards,
Stefan

On 01.02.2011 00:03, Marco wrote:
> Hi,
>
> in my opinion it makes sense to display the date in ISO 8601 format.
>
> now:      \date  results in: January 31, 2011
> ISO 8601: \date  would result in: 2011–01–31
>
> In case Hans does not like this idea, is it possible to change it to make
> ISO 8601 the default. Something like
>
> \setupdate [format={year, –, mm, –, day}]
>
> Regards
> Marco
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-01 12:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-31 23:03 Marco
2011-02-01 12:38 ` Stefan Müller [this message]
2011-02-01 16:18   ` Marco
2011-02-01 17:10 ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-02-01 17:38   ` Marco
2011-02-01 17:42     ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-02-01 23:37       ` Marco

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