Update of bug #66903 (group groff):
Category: Macro package man => Macro package -
others/general
Status: None => Confirmed
Summary: Please recommend a date format in groff_man(7) =>
[man,mdoc] recommend ISO 8601 date format
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Follow-up Comment #2:
[comment #0 original submission:]
> The groff_man(7) manual page doesn't specify which format should be used for
> the date. Would you mind recommending ISO 8601?
>
> This format is the only format recognized by ISO (apart from the basic
> variant, YYYYMMDD), and is what the Linux man-pages project already uses.
Hi Alex,
Yes, thanks. _groff_'s man pages are already set to ship using ISO 8601
date format in the forthcoming 1.24 release.
Expanding scope to include _groff_ mdoc.
Homework for self: make this ticket a dependency of bug #65099.
Per emails on which I was CCed by I acknowledge that the FreeBSD and
_mandoc_(1) communities are not interested in following this change.
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:40:48 +0000 (UTC)
From: Alexander Ziaee <zi...@freebsd.org>
To: alx <a...@kernel.org>
CC: branden <bran...@debian.org>, tech <t...@mandoc.bsd.lv>
Message-Id: <E1tsA9Q-0004Aw-Ox@rmmprod06.runbox>
Subject: Re: Date format
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Hi Alex,
On 2025-03-11 18:49 -04:00 EDT, "Alejandro Colomar" <a...@kernel.org>
wrote:
> If you're going to change the titles to
> lowercase, maybe you could take that opportunity to automate the
> change.
> Since all pages will be touched at once, you could flip the date
> format
> at once?
I spoke with some of the other FreeBSD maintainers, we have a
consensus that neither of these changes is an acceptable
churn to us. We remain interested in productive ways to collaborate
on improving the quality and predictability of information in
system reference manuals.
Oh, and I don't need to to quote Ingo because he's already commented to
this ticket...which means Savannah is going to spit at me and tell me to
reload it. Better save this pending comment, then.
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