From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EYTgU-0004HR-1f for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2005 19:26:38 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jA5JPt9a015072; Sat, 5 Nov 2005 19:25:55 GMT Received: from tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts36.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.93]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jA5JO7kV009980 for ; Sat, 5 Nov 2005 19:24:08 GMT Received: from sympatico.ca ([70.49.156.65]) by tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with SMTP id <20051105192405.UCED16985.tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net@sympatico.ca> for ; Sat, 5 Nov 2005 14:24:05 -0500 Received: by sympatico.ca (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 5 Nov 2005 14:24:01 -0500 Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 14:24:01 -0500 From: Philip Webb To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two Message-ID: <20051105192401.GA6484@sympatico.ca> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <20051105005814.0de0d8ff@snowdrop.home> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051105005814.0de0d8ff@snowdrop.home> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: 7db8395b-727b-4bb3-8257-7a6e38343c0a X-Archives-Hash: dfa2984a390bbca971ccb2f1c0e6d76c 051105 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: ... > News Item File Format ... > The news item will be named in the form ``yyyy-mm-dd-item-name.en.txt`` ... > News Item Headers ... > Date of posting, in ``dd-mmm-yyyy`` format (e.g. 14-Aug-2001). Why the change in date format ? Let's use the proper international style, ie ``yyyy-mm-dd``, in both places, which has the added advantage of not creating problems for non-Anglophones with different month names. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : purslow@chass.utoronto.ca ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list