Re: OT: attribution line with 80 chars max

2002-03-14 Thread Martin Karlsson
* Nicolas Rachinsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-03-14 20.44 +0100]: [...SNIP...] > > Now it works, I have to use %Z instead of %z. > > attribution="* %f [%{%Y-%m-%e %k:%M:%S %Z}]:" > > Stupid me, of course I want > attribution="* %f [%{%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z}]:" > > Nicolas (who should go to bed no

Re: OT: attribution line with 80 chars max

2002-03-14 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* Nicolas Rachinsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-03-14 20:38:15 +0100]: > * Martin Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-03-14 20:26:29 +0100]: > > * Nicolas Rachinsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-03-14 20.02 +0100]: > > > * Phil Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-03-14 12:43:53 +]: > > > I tried: > > >

Re: OT: attribution line with 80 chars max

2002-03-14 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* Martin Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-03-14 20:26:29 +0100]: > * Nicolas Rachinsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-03-14 20.02 +0100]: > > * Phil Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-03-14 12:43:53 +]: > > I tried: > > attribution="* %f [%{%Y-%m-%e %k:%M:%S %z}]:" > > Why not set the date-part i

Re: OT: attribution line with 80 chars max

2002-03-14 Thread Martin Karlsson
* Nicolas Rachinsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-03-14 20.02 +0100]: > * Phil Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-03-14 12:43:53 +]: > I tried: > attribution="* %f [%{%Y-%m-%e %k:%M:%S %z}]:" Why not set the date-part in $date_format, like so: set attribution="* %n <%a> [%d]:" and

Re: OT: attribution line with 80 chars max

2002-03-14 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* Phil Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-03-14 12:43:53 +]: > * John Buttery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-03-13 06:01 -0600]: > > Oh, I definitely agree that the ISO format is the way to go. Although > > I would change it a bit since technically the hyphens (-) are > > unnecessary due to the f

Re: OT: attribution line with 80 chars max

2002-03-14 Thread Phil Gregory
* John Buttery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-03-13 06:01 -0600]: > Oh, I definitely agree that the ISO format is the way to go. Although > I would change it a bit since technically the hyphens (-) are > unnecessary due to the fields being fixed-length, but that's a bigger > nitpick than even I am w

Re: ISO 8601 (was Re: OT: attribution line with 80 chars max)

2002-03-14 Thread Raymond A. Meijer
On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, 15:05, Gary Johnson wrote: > > 2002-01-02 > > > > If we know this is ISO, then obviously it's "January 2, 2002". But if > > we're not _sure_ it's ISO, then it could be "February 1, 2002". > Nah. Not even someone who had never even _heard_ of ISO would ever > write

Re: ISO 8601 (was Re: OT: attribution line with 80 chars max)

2002-03-13 Thread Gary Johnson
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 08:58:57AM -0600, John Buttery wrote: > On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 09:35:29AM -0500, "N. Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 06:01:28AM -0600, John Buttery wrote: > > > >> That being said, in practice it is probably a good bet 9 times out of > >> 10

Re: ISO 8601 (was Re: OT: attribution line with 80 chars max)

2002-03-13 Thread John Buttery
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 09:35:29AM -0500, "N. Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 06:01:28AM -0600, John Buttery wrote: > >> That being said, in practice it is probably a good bet 9 times out of >> 10 that if you see a date like -xx-xx it is probaby -MM-DD... > >I

ISO 8601 (was Re: OT: attribution line with 80 chars max)

2002-03-13 Thread N. Thomas
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 06:01:28AM -0600, John Buttery wrote: > That being said, in practice it is probably a good bet 9 times out of > 10 that if you see a date like -xx-xx it is probaby -MM-DD... Interesting... In what situation would -XX-XX ever be confused with -DD-MM inste

Re: OT: attribution line with 80 chars max

2002-03-13 Thread John Buttery
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 12:34:10PM +0100, Gerhard Häring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Le 13/03/02 à 05:20, John Buttery écrivit: >> Even the ISO format is somewhat lacking in this regard, since although >> it is ambiguous in a vacuum, the fact is that people may not _know_ you >> are using that f

Re: OT: attribution line with 80 chars max

2002-03-13 Thread Gerhard Häring
Le 13/03/02 à 05:20, John Buttery écrivit: > Even the ISO format is somewhat lacking in this regard, since although > it is ambiguous in a vacuum, the fact is that people may not _know_ you > are using that format and so there is still ambiguity, although not a > failing of the format itself. T

Re: OT: attribution line with 80 chars max

2002-03-13 Thread John Buttery
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 11:36:22AM +0100, Sven Guckes wrote: >* Simon White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-Maerz-13 09:04]: >> Post 1999 you are adding to this confusion since the 2 >> digit year could also be interpreted as a month for the >> next 10 years, and as a day for the next 29... and yymmdd,

Re: OT: attribution line with 80 chars max

2002-03-13 Thread Sven Guckes
* Simon "english rules" White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-Maerz-13 09:04]: > 13-Mar-02 at 09:35, Sven Guckes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > > I started using "[yymmdd]" as a date indicator on my webpages > > before Markus Kuhn wrote ISO-8601 (in 1995) - so sue me! ;-) > Well, that's no excuse for no