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From: Philip Webb <purslow@×××××××××.ca>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two
Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 22:26:48
Message-Id: 20051105222414.GB6528@sympatico.ca
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two by Ciaran McCreesh
1 051105 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > 5 Nov 2005 14:24:01 -0500 Philip Webb <purslow@×××××××××.ca> wrote:
3 >> 051105 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
4 >> > News Item File Format
5 >> ...
6 >> > The news item will be named in the form
7 >> > ``yyyy-mm-dd-item-name.en.txt``
8 >> ...
9 >> > News Item Headers
10 >> ...
11 >> > Date of posting, in ``dd-mmm-yyyy`` format (e.g. 14-Aug-2001).
12 >>
13 >> </spectate>
14 >> Why the change in date format ? Let's use the proper international
15 >> style, ie ``yyyy-mm-dd``, in both places, which has the added
16 >> advantage of not creating problems for non-Anglophones with different
17 >> month names. <spectate>
18 > Consistency with GLEPs.
19
20 Sorry, that doesn't mean anything:
21 could you offer something which makes more sense ?
22
23 (I do realise you have put a lot of effort into this & appreciate it)
24
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Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>