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: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 17:30:29 +0200 Message-ID: <83tyjc9fmy.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83k4k9b1f9.fsf@gnu.org> <83ipztb0f6.fsf@gnu.org> <83fwuxarkf.fsf@gnu.org> <83bp5kba99.fsf@gnu.org> <83y68o9nlf.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1290267210 5390 80.91.229.12 (20 Nov 2010 15:33:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 15:33:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 20 16:33:24 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 1PJpRK-0006YV-CK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Nov 2010 16:33:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35271 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PJpRJ-0001i6-5T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Nov 2010 10:33:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=60574 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PJpRC-0001hn-QB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Nov 2010 10:33:15 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PJpRB-0007BJ-KL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Nov 2010 10:33:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:52985) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PJpRB-0007B3-Cd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Nov 2010 10:33:13 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LC600900WB2KY00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Nov 2010 17:32:29 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.124.52.47]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LC600985WI1M410@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sat, 20 Nov 2010 17:32:27 +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:132918 Archived-At: > From: Lennart Borgman > Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 14:34:45 +0100 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > In my opinion we should use the international standard when it is > possible. Standard helps free software since it requires less > resources. This discussion goes nowhere, because you are missing the issue at hand. The issue at hand is how to correctly display a date with the names of the month and the week-day spelled out as strings in the locale's language. By contrast, "%Y-%m-%d" produces a numerical date, which is not what we want in time.el.