Re: mutt/1296: iso date/time format by default
On 2005-09-28 19:20:36 +0200, Rado S wrote:
> As human (majority, too ;) I consider the month-abbreviation as
> preferred over numbers only date-format,
Numbers are also a kind of abbreviation, and month numbers are also
very often used by humans (and it seems that in France, numbers are
used more often than month abbreviations).
> because of potential confusion by numbers only: it's hard to tell
> which part the month is, it's still too often used ambiguously.
With ISO 8601, there is no possible confusion.
> The month-format in attribution is critical because of localized
> month names, so I see the point of having neutral numbers, but most
> month names are pretty similar in most languages.
I disagree.
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