* Sven Guckes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-03-14 13:52:07 +0100]:

> * Dave Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-03-14 12:17]:
>
> > How should it infer the year format, get the seconds and work out the
> > timezone from the above data? Even if the seconds is considered "lossy"
> > the other two items of data seem pretty vital, even if the parser isn't
> > an "editor".
> 
> I am using the format yymmdd on my *webpages* - and for dates only. apart
> from that I was using it in the attribution - with hh:mm.

What do your web pages have to do with this?

> but if applied to messages - which century can this be? 1900? 2100? Think,
> man, THINK! no - try HARDER! ;-)

When you stop assuming that people who ask you questions, or, even worse,
answer them for you, aren't thinking you might stop seeing everything as an
argument.

Besides, why do you think the century has anything to do with this?

> and I don't care what emacs makes of it.

Yes you do, you asked the question to which emacs was one answer. Further to
that you started to suggest that some of its code should adopt your form of
writing dates. Have a think about the implications of what all this suggests
about the continuity of message.

> as if you couldn't guess.  sheesh.

I guessed that this is the sort of response I'd get. I hate being right
about this sort of thing <sigh>.

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