Re: [Scilab-users] Call for reviewer <= SEP: upgrading weekday()

2017-08-10 Thread Samuel Gougeon
Le 01/08/2017 à 14:24, Richard llom a écrit : Then, for a big subset of dates, there would not be any way to distinguish it from DD/MM/, Yeah, thats the problem with this format (and not only in scilab). unless for instance using a distinct separator: MM\DD\. Not sure that this wou

Re: [Scilab-users] Call for reviewer <= SEP: upgrading weekday()

2017-08-01 Thread Richard llom
Then I would go with just "US" (my opinion). cheers -- View this message in context: http://mailinglists.scilab.org/Scilab-users-SEP-upgrading-weekday-tp4036719p4036804.html Sent from the Scilab users - Mailing Lists Archives mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __

Re: [Scilab-users] Call for reviewer <= SEP: upgrading weekday()

2017-08-01 Thread Samuel Gougeon
Le 01/08/2017 à 15:45, Richard llom a écrit : OK. So, instead of an option, we could use a prefix, that will be even handier, like in "US7/24/2017". It could be specified just with "US"+myDate instead of myDate,"US", without having to think about the place of the "US" option wrt the"long" one. We

Re: [Scilab-users] Call for reviewer <= SEP: upgrading weekday()

2017-08-01 Thread Richard llom
> OK. So, instead of an option, we could use a prefix, that will be even > handier, like in "US7/24/2017". It could be specified just with > "US"+myDate > instead of myDate,"US", without having to think about the place of the > "US" option wrt the"long" > one. > We could use "US " (with a space) in

Re: [Scilab-users] Call for reviewer <= SEP: upgrading weekday()

2017-08-01 Thread Samuel Gougeon
Le 01/08/2017 à 14:24, Richard llom a écrit : unless for instance using a distinct separator: MM\DD\. Not sure that this would be actually ok. Would it? IMO, a "US" optional flag would not be more handy. IMO the "US" optional flag would be the only reasonable solution. Also for someone who h

Re: [Scilab-users] Call for reviewer <= SEP: upgrading weekday()

2017-08-01 Thread Richard llom
> Then, for a big subset of dates, there would not be any way to > distinguish it from DD/MM/, Yeah, thats the problem with this format (and not only in scilab). > unless for instance using a distinct separator: MM\DD\. Not sure > that this would be actually ok. > Would it? IMO, a "US

Re: [Scilab-users] Call for reviewer <= SEP: upgrading weekday()

2017-08-01 Thread Samuel Gougeon
Hello Richard, Thanks for your input. I am answering in the body: Le 01/08/2017 à 13:07, Richard llom a écrit : I find it confusing that only "DD/MM/" doesn't require a leading zero, while all others do... Not all, just the -MM-DD... one, because this format is a normalized/standard

Re: [Scilab-users] Call for reviewer <= SEP: upgrading weekday()

2017-08-01 Thread Richard llom
I find it confusing that only "DD/MM/" doesn't require a leading zero, while all others do... Also there is no support at all for the us date format (MM/DD/). Not a fan of it, but users from the USA might appreciate it. cheers richard Samuel GOUGEON wrote > Hello, > > The new implement