From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Time string format
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 17:17:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=n_KYV+nB7PNXZjMzO6gHOwxafxu-uFVbUoB1g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83sjyw9f7p.fsf@gnu.org>
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
>> 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.
We are discussing the time string format for the mode line. ISO is
perfect for local formatting because it is the same for all locales.
My impression is that you do not like the format I suggest and
therefore say it is irrelevant. You are entitled to your opinion but
not to dismissing relevant information as irrelevant.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-20 16:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-19 18:42 Time string format Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-19 18:51 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-11-19 19:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-19 19:36 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-11-19 22:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-20 1:25 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-11-20 9:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-20 12:08 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-11-20 12:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-20 13:34 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-11-20 13:36 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-11-20 15:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-20 16:17 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2010-11-20 16:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-20 16:49 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-11-21 13:53 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-11-21 13:55 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-11-21 14:25 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-11-21 16:07 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-11-22 4:19 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-11-22 11:27 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-11-21 15:23 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2010-11-20 15:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-20 15:39 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-11-20 15:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-20 2:49 ` Deniz Dogan
2010-11-20 10:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-20 3:47 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-11-20 10:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-20 18:10 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-11-20 21:23 ` David De La Harpe Golden
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