Re: formatting of the Changelog subject line [Re: Dia ChangeLog report for Sat Jul 17 07:23:01 2004 (UTC)]

[Cyrille Chepelov <cyrille chepelov org>]

[RFC822]

sorry Alan, I quoted the wrong RFC number. I had RFC 2822, §3.3 in mind
(but actually, all I was doing was using Python's time.asctime)

Le Wed, Jul 21, 2004, Ã  09:30:56PM -0400, James K. Lowden a écrit:
> On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie> wrote:
> > If you prefer to use a more readable date string like '2004 Jul 17' that
> > would be fine too.
> 
> Please, no!  It's bad enough unixheads 35 years ago decided to tack on the
> year after the time (mustn't disturb precedent), and that every country
> has at least one way to format the date.  Let's not invent something when
> there's so much to choose from!  


well, OK, Alan, you win. "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S +0000 (%x)" from now on.

	-- Cyrille

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