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: Time string format Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 20:42:18 +0200 Message-ID: <83k4k9b1f9.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1290192320 2343 80.91.229.12 (19 Nov 2010 18:45:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 18:45:20 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 19 19:45:14 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 1PJVxN-0003ms-9J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 19:45:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55277 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PJVxM-0007Ph-GG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 13:45:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=34356 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PJVxE-0007OW-UA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 13:45:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PJVxD-0000Iq-Rq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 13:45:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:52537) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PJVxD-0000IH-Hh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 13:44:59 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LC500K00AI08B00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 20:44:17 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.124.52.47]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LC500J3MAPSUX40@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 20:44:17 +0200 (IST) 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:132871 Archived-At: 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". This 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?