On Sunday 03 April 2011 10:06:39 Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 03/04/11 16:54, Lisi wrote: > > On Sunday 03 April 2011 01:20:10 Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> I suspect Liam's response was made in jest :-) > > > > I'm sure it was - and a successful jest. But mine was not. In that > > case, context made the date's form redundant, but it _is_ a problem. Not > > major one, a very minor one. But a problem - and one with a very easy > > solution. I prefer the 11-04-01 (or 2011-04-01) > > Either of those options works for me. > > > solution to the one I myself offered, > > because month names in a foreign language (and for many here English is a > > foreign language), whilst certainly unambiguous, may be confusing. > > > > Lisi > > ddmmyy mmddyy type expressions are a pain more often than not (16+ days > a month) - because I can't tell which one is which (dd or mm). > Out of curiosity - I've attached a (tiny) screenscrape of how a post > appears in Thunderbird (yeah I know, but the rest of things are Debian). > I guess the date format on the left is from the list, and the one on the > right is from my system... are my assumptions correct? Also - is that > how others have their dates displayed?
So far as I can judge, the time on the right is according to your system, and the time on the left according to the sender's. That assumes that your current time is +10. (You appear to be 9 hours ahead of me, and we are currently running on summer time: i.e. +1. If your clock has also been altered from UTC, then you will have to do the arithmetic!) Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201104031034.48648.lisi.re...@gmail.com
