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 11:43:46 +0200 Message-ID: <83bp5kba99.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83k4k9b1f9.fsf@gnu.org> <83ipztb0f6.fsf@gnu.org> <83fwuxarkf.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1290246367 26515 80.91.229.12 (20 Nov 2010 09:46:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 09:46:07 +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 10:46:01 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 1PJk1B-0004Uz-0j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Nov 2010 10:46:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40558 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PJk1A-0004qi-Ao for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Nov 2010 04:46:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=38249 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PJk0x-0004q5-Hr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Nov 2010 04:45:48 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PJk0w-0001oU-I2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Nov 2010 04:45:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:41985) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PJk0w-0001mK-AC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Nov 2010 04:45:46 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LC600600G235500@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:45:44 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.124.52.47]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LC6006R0GG76900@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:45:44 +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:132895 Archived-At: > From: Lennart Borgman > Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 02:25:16 +0100 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 11:15 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >> From: Lennart Borgman > >> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 20:36:06 +0100 > >> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > >> > >> There is an ISO format for displaying time. See the doc string of > >> format-time-string, at the bottom. > > > > I don't see any relevance of the ISO format to the issue at hand. > > Why not? Is not the ISO time format relevant for all languages? No. You cannot force a culture to use ISO. The ISO format, as I understand it, is mainly for machine-readable output, not for humans. > Or do you think of right-to-left languages? That too, but not just.