Vagrant Cascadian <[email protected]> writes:

> On 2022-03-12, Nicholas D. Steeves wrote:
>> Vagrant Cascadian <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> Wow!  Thank you for catching this so quickly, and for submitting a
>> patch, and sorry I missed this.
>
> Just happened to look at it shortly after you had apparently
> uploaded. heh. :)
>

Haha!

>> By the way, are ISO 8601 dates in man pages a goal in Debian?
>
> I'm not aware of any goal, it just seems like the most consistent format
> to use, works well for reproducible builds, and isn't "wrong". :)
>

ACK, applied, and uploaded.

>> I noted GNU man pages use "%B %d, %Y", and
>> chose the more international little endian long-form.  There's no
>> problem changing to ISO 8601 as you suggest, I'm just curious.
>
> Maybe it'd be worth exploring getting GNU to move towards ISO 8601
> instead... I'll plant that seed in the back of my mind and see where it
> goes!
>

Cool, feel free to CC me if you go through with it, I'm curious how the
conversation will go

>> On a tangential topic, what would you recommend for making shell scripts
>> such as btrfsmaintenance aware of plug/unplug (alternatively off battery
>> vs on battery) state, to suspend and resume CPU and IO intensive
>> operations, and without falling back to polling?  UPower, to cover both
>> laptops and servers that have a UPS?
>
> No opinions on that, good luck!
>

Thanks!  I hope there won't be many tricky blockers or pitfalls when I
finally get around to it (users seem to want to want it, but my backlog
is still huge).

Cheers,
Nicholas

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