Re: Lack of ISO 8601 dates and times

2004-04-16 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-04-16 15:50:15 +0100 Alexander Winston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 15:17 +0100, MJ Ray wrote: A patch would probably be better. I was under the impression that one would be unwelcome. Would it not be? AIUI, switching all dates to ISO-8601 formats would be unwelc

Re: Lack of ISO 8601 dates and times

2004-04-16 Thread Alexander Winston
On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 15:17 +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > On 2004-04-16 15:09:07 +0100 Alexander Winston > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I thought that I should add that a new date format has now appeared > > A patch would probably be better. I was under the impression that one would be unwelcome.

Re: Lack of ISO 8601 dates and times

2004-04-16 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-04-16 15:09:07 +0100 Alexander Winston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I thought that I should add that a new date format has now appeared A patch would probably be better.

Re: Lack of ISO 8601 dates and times

2004-04-16 Thread Alexander Winston
On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 20:35 -0400, Alexander Winston wrote: > There are too many date and time notations used on the Debian Web site, > especially the main page. Toward the beginning of > , the "April 13th, 2004" format is used. Further > down, the "13 Apr 2004" format is u

Re: Lack of ISO 8601 dates and times

2004-04-13 Thread David Oftedal
Yeah, but the pages are in American, not English :-) If someone would volunteer to do a British English translation of the website, I'm sure we could change that. That's where you made your first mistake, innit. -David

Re: Lack of ISO 8601 dates and times

2004-04-13 Thread Peter Karlsson
MJ Ray: > For one, putting the month first seems backwards to normal English > use. Yeah, but the pages are in American, not English :-) If someone would volunteer to do a British English translation of the website, I'm sure we could change that. > Barely worth switching existing entries, IMO. L

Re: Lack of ISO 8601 dates and times

2004-04-13 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-04-13 06:29:23 +0100 Peter Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Alexander Winston: Toward the beginning of , the "April 13th, 2004" format is used. This is the format we call the "spoken date" format, and is used for running text. It should always contain the mo

Re: Lack of ISO 8601 dates and times

2004-04-13 Thread Peter Karlsson
Alexander Winston: > There are too many date and time notations used on the Debian Web > site, especially the main page. There are a couple in use, yes. Which one is used depends on the context. > Toward the beginning of , the "April 13th, > 2004" format is used. This is

Lack of ISO 8601 dates and times

2004-04-12 Thread Alexander Winston
There are too many date and time notations used on the Debian Web site, especially the main page. Toward the beginning of , the "April 13th, 2004" format is used. Further down, the "13 Apr 2004" format is used repeatedly. The "Tue, Apr 13 00:30:00 UTC 2004" format is at the