#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 leif):
Replying to [comment:24 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.
That depends on the locale and isn't easily sortable or grepable. (I
thought you had to deal with airlines; you know every date is always UTC
there, regardless of any daylight saving or whatever.)
> 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?
I'm aware there are some <censored> people writing 2010/28/02, but with
slashes, not dashes.
> 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.
Detecting such is easier with the date format we have. ;-)
But I'm strongly against nagging or annoying users, especially since the
default is to print the Sage banner when Sage starts up, which shows the
release date.
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