On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you prefer to use a more readable date string like '2004 Jul 17' that > would be fine too.
Please, no! It's bad enough unixheads 35 years ago decided to tack on the year after the time (mustn't disturb precedent), and that every country has at least one way to format the date. Let's not invent something when there's so much to choose from! I think Principle of Least Astonishment augurs to leave things as they are. It also has the advantage of putting the most interesting information first, helpful if the whole Subject line can't be displayed. --jkl _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia
