Re: ISO 8601 (was Re: OT: attribution line with 80 chars max)

2002-03-14 Thread Raymond A. Meijer
On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, 15:05, Gary Johnson wrote: 2002-01-02 If we know this is ISO, then obviously it's January 2, 2002. But if we're not _sure_ it's ISO, then it could be February 1, 2002. Nah. Not even someone who had never even _heard_ of ISO would ever write -DD-MM. For

Re: OT: attribution line with 80 chars max

2002-03-14 Thread Phil Gregory
* John Buttery [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-03-13 06:01 -0600]: Oh, I definitely agree that the ISO format is the way to go. Although I would change it a bit since technically the hyphens (-) are unnecessary due to the fields being fixed-length, but that's a bigger nitpick than even I am

Re: OT: attribution line with 80 chars max

2002-03-14 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* Martin Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-03-14 20:26:29 +0100]: * Nicolas Rachinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-03-14 20.02 +0100]: * Phil Gregory [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-03-14 12:43:53 +]: I tried: attribution=* %f [%{%Y-%m-%e %k:%M:%S %z}]: Why not set the date-part in $date_format,

Re: OT: attribution line with 80 chars max

2002-03-14 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* Nicolas Rachinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-03-14 20:38:15 +0100]: * Martin Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-03-14 20:26:29 +0100]: * Nicolas Rachinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-03-14 20.02 +0100]: * Phil Gregory [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-03-14 12:43:53 +]: I tried: attribution=* %f

Re: OT: attribution line with 80 chars max

2002-03-14 Thread Martin Karlsson
* Nicolas Rachinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-03-14 20.44 +0100]: [...SNIP...] Now it works, I have to use %Z instead of %z. attribution=* %f [%{%Y-%m-%e %k:%M:%S %Z}]: Stupid me, of course I want attribution=* %f [%{%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z}]: Nicolas (who should go to bed now, and get rid

Re: OT: attribution line with 80 chars max

2002-03-13 Thread Gerhard Hring
Le 13/03/02 à 05:20, John Buttery écrivit: Even the ISO format is somewhat lacking in this regard, since although it is ambiguous in a vacuum, the fact is that people may not _know_ you are using that format and so there is still ambiguity, although not a failing of the format itself.

Re: OT: attribution line with 80 chars max

2002-03-13 Thread John Buttery
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 12:34:10PM +0100, Gerhard Häring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le 13/03/02 à 05:20, John Buttery écrivit: Even the ISO format is somewhat lacking in this regard, since although it is ambiguous in a vacuum, the fact is that people may not _know_ you are using that format

ISO 8601 (was Re: OT: attribution line with 80 chars max)

2002-03-13 Thread N. Thomas
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 06:01:28AM -0600, John Buttery wrote: That being said, in practice it is probably a good bet 9 times out of 10 that if you see a date like -xx-xx it is probaby -MM-DD... Interesting... In what situation would -XX-XX ever be confused with -DD-MM

Re: ISO 8601 (was Re: OT: attribution line with 80 chars max)

2002-03-13 Thread John Buttery
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 09:35:29AM -0500, N. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 06:01:28AM -0600, John Buttery wrote: That being said, in practice it is probably a good bet 9 times out of 10 that if you see a date like -xx-xx it is probaby -MM-DD...

Re: ISO 8601 (was Re: OT: attribution line with 80 chars max)

2002-03-13 Thread Gary Johnson
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 08:58:57AM -0600, John Buttery wrote: On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 09:35:29AM -0500, N. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 06:01:28AM -0600, John Buttery wrote: That being said, in practice it is probably a good bet 9 times out of 10 that if you