From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: [PATCH] European date format Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 14:46:55 -0500 Message-ID: <4033.1299268015@alphaville.usa.hp.com> References: <87mxlawyzv.wl%jan.seeger@thenybble.de> <3695.1299265482@alphaville.usa.hp.com> <87lj0ud7ll.wl%jan.seeger@thenybble.de> Reply-To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42409 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pvaxn-0001l0-1W for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 14:46:59 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pvaxl-00055C-MK for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 14:46:58 -0500 Received: from g4t0017.houston.hp.com ([15.201.24.20]:41431) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pvaxl-000552-II for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 14:46:57 -0500 In-Reply-To: Message from Jan Seeger of "Fri, 04 Mar 2011 20:11:02 +0100." <87lj0ud7ll.wl%jan.seeger@thenybble.de> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Jan Seeger Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com, emacs-orgmode Jan Seeger 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.