From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Time string format Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 21:03:57 +0200 Message-ID: <83ipztb0f6.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83k4k9b1f9.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1290193574 8204 80.91.229.12 (19 Nov 2010 19:06:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 19:06:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 19 20:06:10 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PJWHg-0001D4-DP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 20:06:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50941 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PJWHf-0005ku-Qv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 14:06:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=46921 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PJWHZ-0005jF-4t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 14:06:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PJWHX-00043q-Ia for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 14:06:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:55281) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PJWHX-00043W-6x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 14:05:59 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LC500K00B4UBC00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 21:05:57 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.124.52.47]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LC500KDABPV6E40@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 21:05:56 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:132875 Archived-At: > From: Lennart Borgman > Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 19:51:40 +0100 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org >=20 > On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote= : > > time.el:display-time-string-forms believes that the right format = for > > displaying the date in the mode-line tooltip is "%a %b %e, %Y". = =C2=A0This > > is not necessarily TRT in languages other than English, because > > putting the month name before the day of the month does not > > necessarily read well in other languages. > > > > Would it be a good idea to have an element of language-info-alist= that > > provides a proper format for this? >=20 > Maybe, but why not use ISO format?=C2=A7 I don't understand what exactly do you mean and how it would solve th= e issue I was talking about. Please explain more.