On 10 Jun 2020, at 18:46, Charlie Garrison wrote:
On 11 Jun 2020, at 4:30, [email protected] wrote:
When one replies to an email, MailMate formats the date/time like
so `On 10 Jun 2020, at 16:18...` While I understand that is how
most of the world references dates and times, I am one of those
uncouth Americans and wondering if there is a way to change the
format?
Please don't change it to all numbers; at best, US dates can be
ambiguous, and can be downright misleading if used for anything
important (like restoring from backups, and getting wrong backup
because arrogant company assumes everyone is American). Basically, use
any format you like, as long as it can only be interpreted one way.
Ambiguity leads to pain which leads to loss of income; just don't do
it.
Charlie: First, do note that this is for the intro line in the message,
not the Date: header field, which would be used for the important stuff.
The Date: field is formatted unambiguously as part of the protocol. For
the intro bit, it's already ambiguous in that it doesn't include the
time zone, so no need to get too fussy about that part.
Also, totally numeric is OK if you follow RFC 3339, which has a nice
format of yyyy-mm-dd. Even though you could switch month and day, even
us stupid Americans don't usually do that when the year comes first;
it's so unusual to have the year first, that we generally figure out
that the month comes next. ;-)
pr
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