Re: [PATCH] European date format

[Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>]

Jan Seeger <jan.seeger@thenybble.de> wrote:

> Hey!
> 
> Ah, I'm sorry. Yeah, european format is Day.Month.Year (optional). And
> the final trailing dot is intentional, because I think it looks nicer
> (and I think it simplifies the regex). Also, my last mail was missing
> a smiley, I was only kidding of course.
> 

You mean about the "bassackwards" comment? I think you got it exactly
right :-)

The problem with the required final trailing dot (if you want to leave
out the year) is that it is not obvious - at least to me: the equivalent
ISO would be "-03-04" and the equivalent American would be "3/4/" which
look horrible - however, I don't know what the general practice is in
Europe.

Nick

PS. BTW, another reason to avoid application/octet-stream is that
patches sent to the list are saved in Patchwork - but not if they are
application/octet-stream: see the thread

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/25513

and in particular

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/25513/focus=25560

In this case, my reposting of your patch inline has archived it
to Patchwork so you don't need to do it again, but keep it in mind
if you submit patches in the future.