On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 04:39:06PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: > >> OK to add the correct double-space between NAME and <EMAIL> in the ChangeLog >> lines "DATE NAME <EMAIL>"? >> >> There are 24 single-spaced lines compared with 283 double-spaced lines. >> Max. > >FWIW, I count 125 single-spaced lines vs. 294 double-spaced lines... I >used the following patterns in vim: > >/^[^ \t].*[^ ] </ for single-spaced, and >/^[^ \t].*[^ ] </ for double-spaced. > >This also brings up an interesting question of what the proper date format >is. Most (320) dates are in the YYYY-MM-DD format, but some (99) are in >the "Dow Mon DD HH:MM:SS YYYY" format, and some of those have 2 spaces >before YYYY. Weird.
I think that both are acceptable by GNU standards. I don't know about the spacing before the YYYY, though. Personally I prefer the more descriptive date but I think that form may be deprecated. cgf
