From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Time string format Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 19:51:40 +0100 Message-ID: References: <83k4k9b1f9.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1290192740 4201 80.91.229.12 (19 Nov 2010 18:52:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 18:52:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 19 19:52:16 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 1PJW4F-0008LP-Ih for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 19:52:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46659 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PJW49-0008Pc-AO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 13:52:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=46977 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PJW43-0008PX-PD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 13:52:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PJW42-0001gx-QB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 13:52:03 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-ew0-f41.google.com ([209.85.215.41]:42304) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PJW42-0001ge-KG; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 13:52:02 -0500 Original-Received: by ewy25 with SMTP id 25so2937496ewy.0 for ; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:52:00 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=xtoWmfroclOO2mKW3WaYwAXDqfgVNxmUhSXLnvkjow8=; b=Zfp7RA0MCjrAqQuwDqB5A+Xhut1RZTCU3V4EvrUd4/aY0L5uWnZ5Vh7rn7aT3oMALS UfAwwLR9RhjoGY4I9vmeK7PhN8BRBixMauI3Qu30SLN0jnvlCe0WI/vO0VOxh71dtAGW 8lQr7qdgXMP8bgIenPU/134EzSaNXyWV9Tc3A= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=wCbaPTWgjN0dE+ONgBnCbpCtByajvmVXi2U24WmlKedqZgMPAYM036Drngdu3+F86P jTqu/8oh/I7Do5sDoyV/9NXcypxOw/IaNBkx4+ItItUC/CHkv5A/qRfp047UJao2gJps eQSr0GRvJEcY2SkrZC69DiVXPUObzxRrW8+ZY= Original-Received: by 10.213.9.137 with SMTP id l9mr2000682ebl.84.1290192720729; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:52:00 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.213.22.135 with HTTP; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:51:40 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <83k4k9b1f9.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:132872 Archived-At: On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > 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". =C2=A0Thi= s > 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? Maybe, but why not use ISO format?=C2=A7