On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:21:38PM +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote: >>> >> >> It's only unambiguous if you know the convention being adopted /is/ >> ISO-8601. In an ideal world, we could have a standardised date format >> which the man program can transform into the date representation of >> the user's locale thus satisfying all requirements. > > Thats what ISO-8601 is. There is no other format that goes XXXX-YY-ZZ.
In the context of dates, yes. But since that field isn't standardised to be a date, that might be too big an assuption. I'd be happy to convert my manpages to use ISO-8601 dates. However, that would require groff and man to specify it formally and display it correctly using LC_TIME D_FMT. It deserves wider adoption outside Debian (and Linux). If the groff and man upstreams agree, it might be worth displaying any of the extra1/2/3 fields using D_FMT if they parse as an ISO-8601 date, or D_T_FMT if they include a time as well. Ideally this should be done in groff. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
