From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Achim Gratz Subject: Re: [PATCH] European date format Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2011 08:45:05 +0100 Message-ID: <87vczyvwn2.fsf@Rainer.invalid> References: <87mxlawyzv.wl%jan.seeger@thenybble.de> <3695.1299265482@alphaville.usa.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=47860 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PvmB0-0002ZY-6E for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2011 02:45:23 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PvmAy-00011F-PI for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2011 02:45:21 -0500 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:36404) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PvmAy-00011A-Ij for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2011 02:45:20 -0500 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PvmAx-0005U7-4p for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2011 08:45:19 +0100 Received: from p57aada06.dip.t-dialin.net ([87.170.218.6]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 05 Mar 2011 08:45:19 +0100 Received: from Stromeko by p57aada06.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 05 Mar 2011 08:45:19 +0100 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: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Nick Dokos writes: > 4.3. ==> the fourth day of March, 2011 > 4.3 ==> does not match As it should, IMHO. This format is relying on interpreting dates as ordinals (fourth day of the third month). Also there'd be no way for a regex to distinguish some dates from some FP numbers, at least when the point is, well, "." (in Germany at least it would be ","). But really, there isn't any "european" date format that I'm aware of and the only standard date format is ISO8601:2004. If you use the extended format (with the dashes), dates are easily recognizable and most important of all there are no ambiguities. > the equivalent ISO would be "-03-04" No, this has nothing to do with ISO dates. Dropping must always occur from the least significant part, so you can't leave out the year. Truncating the year designator to two digits was allowed in a former version "by agreement", but has been eliminated from the standard, BTW. Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Factory and User Sound Singles for Waldorf Blofeld: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfSounds