From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [jmd@csse.uwa.edu.au: change-log-redate] Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:11:42 -0400 Message-ID: References: <18085.6798.1086.811032@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <18086.31952.228854.426546@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1185394316 15408 80.91.229.12 (25 Jul 2007 20:11:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:11:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Nick Roberts Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 25 22:11:55 2007 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 4.50) id 1IDnD4-0002Ti-3O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 22:11:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IDnD3-0000c2-HP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:11:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IDnBI-0006sZ-IK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:10:00 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IDnBH-0006rn-OY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:09:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IDnBH-0006rf-6l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:09:59 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IDnBG-00076H-SU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:09:58 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IDnCw-0003MO-GV; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:11:42 -0400 In-reply-to: <18086.31952.228854.426546@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (message from Nick Roberts on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:27:28 +1200) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:75534 Archived-At: When I looked at it, I couldn't see how it ever worked. Unfortuanately Dave Love doesn't appear to be around at the moment to defend it. Whether it ever worked or not, it might be worth fixing. To be topical, I could add a command called localize-emacs and someone might report that it was broken. Would you then expect someone to fix it? Before adding it I would want a discussion of whether it is useful. If it seemed useful but didn't work, I would then turn to you as its author to fix it. The question now is not "did it ever work" but "is it useful". Given that the current date format was introduced in Emacs 21 (or perhaps earlier), I guess the need for this function is done with. So it is ok to delete it.