From: Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com>
To: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
Cc: Help GNU Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Tim Landscheidt <tim@tim-landscheidt.de>
Subject: Re: TIL about string-rectangle
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2020 06:44:37 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANc-5UyL+hFvtp+9u13qmGOd6q7-Hx662rur1ZN6=qrJLnVh7Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP_d_8U7kMPFkD_WwJ661Sib-Hx8T0VPosc=TAsoMiFUP0RJjg@mail.gmail.com>
>
> You will have an easier time sorting by date if you keep dates in the
> ISO 8601 format: YYYY-MM-DD.
>
Oh, no question. * My source does it the wrong way (a big financial
institution who should know better), and the source updates almost daily,
so I felt it easier to just leave the dates as-is. Perhaps I should add an
extra transformation to the shell pipeline which preprocesses the new
inputs.
Skip
* I use my wife's birthday as a numeric PIN in one situation where we both
need to know the number. I tried to explain to her that it is her birthday
in sorting order. (She wouldn't know "ISO-8601" from a hole in the ground.)
She didn't get it. :-)
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-31 12:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-30 20:59 TIL about string-rectangle Skip Montanaro
2020-12-30 21:37 ` Tim Landscheidt
2020-12-30 22:11 ` Skip Montanaro
2020-12-31 8:03 ` Yuri Khan
2020-12-31 10:21 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-12-31 12:44 ` Skip Montanaro [this message]
2020-12-31 14:32 ` Tim Landscheidt
2020-12-30 21:43 ` Drew Adams
2020-12-30 22:08 ` Skip Montanaro
2020-12-30 23:11 ` Drew Adams
2020-12-30 23:23 ` Drew Adams
2020-12-30 23:24 ` Skip Montanaro
2020-12-31 7:15 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
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