On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 11:34:44AM +0800, John Darrington wrote: > On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 10:17:16PM -0400, Jason Stover wrote: > I've been adding ChangeLog entries with (add-change-log-entry) > in emacs. I noticed that my version of emacs (a development > checkout from a couple of months ago) has this format: > > 2006-04-04 Jason Stover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > whereas John and Ben's have this format: > > Mon Mar 27 16:00:42 2006 Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I noticed that my version of emacs has a function (change-log-redate), > which will change the latter format above (which it calls the 'old-style > date entries') into the first format. > > I prefer one format over the other, but I would like to use the > 'right' one. So which is 'right'? And if it the 'old-style' is right, > how can I get emacs to use it instead of the newer format? >
I meant to say that I do not prefer one format over the other. > In general, I don't like dates written all as numbers, in text > documents. I never know whether 2006-04-03 means April 03, or > March 04. I thought only in the U.S. did anyone use <year>-<day>-<month> or <month>-<day>-<year>. I thought everyone else used <year>-<month>-<day>. -Jason _______________________________________________ pspp-dev mailing list pspp-dev@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-dev
