From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: esr@thyrsus.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Repo cpnversion progress report
Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 10:40:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83a9eb5ipz.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52EC3A5D.60404@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 16:05:49 -0800
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> How about a POSIX timestamp rather than an ISO 8601 string?
> "1391204651!larsi@gnus.org", for example, instead of
> "2014-01-31T21:44:11!larsi@gnus.org".
Please don't. These strings are for human consumption.
"2014-01-31T21:44:11" is easily parsed by humans, while "1391204651"
needs some program to convert it to human-readable time stamp. If you
look at this text outside of Emacs, the conversion is not easy, and
even inside Emacs it needs to type a command, which is a nuisance.
> The ISO 8601 string is not that readable, nor does it match the
> localtime clock of committer, so it's a bit of a magic cookie anyway.
It's a magic cookie which is easily interpreted by simply reading it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-01 8:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-30 19:55 Repo cpnversion progress report Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-30 20:11 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-01-30 20:27 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-30 22:04 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-01-30 21:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-30 21:42 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-31 7:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-31 15:25 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-31 15:57 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-31 16:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-31 17:31 ` Karl Fogel
2014-01-31 17:56 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-01-31 19:23 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-31 19:55 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-01-31 20:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-31 21:20 ` Sean Sieger
2014-01-31 21:22 ` Sean Sieger
2014-02-01 9:38 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-31 19:31 ` Karl Fogel
2014-01-31 20:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-02-01 11:04 ` Richard Stallman
2014-01-31 18:16 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-31 19:44 ` Paul Eggert
2014-01-31 21:07 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-02-01 0:05 ` Paul Eggert
2014-02-01 0:25 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-02-01 4:19 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-02-01 8:40 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-02-02 1:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-31 21:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-31 21:51 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-31 23:15 ` Jan D.
2014-02-01 4:22 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-31 23:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-02-01 4:26 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-02-01 11:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-02-02 0:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-02-02 10:24 ` Eric S. Raymond
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