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 17:39:38 +0200 Message-ID: <83sjyw9f7p.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 1290267717 7320 80.91.229.12 (20 Nov 2010 15:41:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 15:41:57 +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 16:41:50 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 1PJpZV-0002gd-RU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Nov 2010 16:41:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59981 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PJpZV-0003Qk-DV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Nov 2010 10:41:49 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54139 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PJpZR-0003Qf-3g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Nov 2010 10:41:45 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PJpZN-0000sz-6C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Nov 2010 10:41:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:58888) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PJpZM-0000sQ-TZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Nov 2010 10:41:41 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LC600500WB5Q700@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Nov 2010 17:41:38 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.124.52.47]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LC60058JWXBM080@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Sat, 20 Nov 2010 17:41:38 +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:132920 Archived-At: > From: Lennart Borgman > Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 14:36:47 +0100 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html > http://www.iso.org/iso/date_and_time_format These explain that the ISO format resolves the ambiguity in numerical specifications of dates. Therefore, it's irrelevant to the issue in this thread, which is how to display non-numerical dates. There's no ambiguity in "20 Nov 2010". Not to mention that the date format discussed here is specific to a locale's language, whereas the ISO format is agnostic to the locale.