From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: TIL about string-rectangle
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2020 11:21:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mtxub7is.fsf@zoho.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAP_d_8U7kMPFkD_WwJ661Sib-Hx8T0VPosc=TAsoMiFUP0RJjg@mail.gmail.com
Yuri Khan wrote:
> You will have an easier time sorting by date if you keep
> dates in the ISO 8601 format: YYYY-MM-DD.
It is also an intuitive format, the year is complete so no Y2K
bug or need to build an underground shelter to survive it
(bummer), and it goes from big to small which is the natural
order of things...
"God intended dates to look like..." ISO 8601
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-31 10:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-30 20:59 TIL about string-rectangle Skip Montanaro
2020-12-30 21:37 ` Tim Landscheidt
2020-12-30 22:11 ` Skip Montanaro
2020-12-31 8:03 ` Yuri Khan
2020-12-31 10:21 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2020-12-31 12:44 ` Skip Montanaro
2020-12-31 14:32 ` Tim Landscheidt
2020-12-30 21:43 ` Drew Adams
2020-12-30 22:08 ` Skip Montanaro
2020-12-30 23:11 ` Drew Adams
2020-12-30 23:23 ` Drew Adams
2020-12-30 23:24 ` Skip Montanaro
2020-12-31 7:15 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
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