#9434: Stop greping for a non-existent sage-banner
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Reporter: drkirkby | Owner: drkirkby
Type: defect | Status: needs_review
Priority: minor | Milestone: sage-4.6
Component: build | Keywords:
Author: | Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: | Merged:
Work_issues: |
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Comment(by drkirkby):
Although I'm aware of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 ISO 8601]
date format, for humans to read, having the month (Jan, Feb etc) and day
(Mon, Tue etc) is useful. It's obvious that 2001 is the year, but things
like 2010-05-06 are not so good for human readability. Is that the the 5th
of June or the 6th of May? It's more confusing, as different parts of the
world use different order for the month and day.
One other thing, that I'll mention though this is perhaps not the best
ticket for it, is #8447, which was a suggestion of mine to detect when
the Sage version is old. Having the release date stored as seconds since
the Epoch (in addition to a human friendly way), would enable us to detect
when Sage is old. So I suggest anywhere one adds a release date, we bear
that in mind.
BTW John, I've nothing against the use of {{{cat}}} as sometimes it is
needed, but things like
{{{cat filename | grep foobar}}}
are a bit silly when
{{{grep foobar filename}}}
will work, is shorter, and does not create an extra process.
I've got to submit a job application today, so doing lots with Sage is not
on my priority list today. Hence I wont be reviewing things for the rest
of the day.
dave
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