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 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. Would

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

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 http://www.debian.org/, the April 13th, 2004 format is used. This is the

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 http://www.debian.org/, 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 month

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.

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

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 http://www.debian.org/, 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 very