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Re: mutt/1296: iso date/time format by default



Hello Dickon,

 On Friday, September 23, 2005 at 10:26:59 +0100, Dickon Hood wrote:

> I'm English, and I, along with a large number of people, use 24h clock
> by default.

    Thanks for the info. I vaguely seemed to recall having learnt in
school that you English used 12h...


> mutt's AM / PM is wrong anyway. It's '3:15pm' not '03:15pm'; the
> initial '0' is dropped in 12h clock (or so I was taught at primary
> school $mumble years ago).

    There is no simple and portable way to do that with strftime(). I
used to use %-I (and %_H in index), but it's an ugly GNUism.


>> I send a custom English attribution with am/pm time.
> Personally I hate it.

    Me too. Changed to 24h.


Bye!    Alain.
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