<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 9:03 AM, Jerome Yuzyk <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jerome@supernet.ab.ca" target="_blank">jerome@supernet.ab.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">On Sunday, December 13, 2015 01:33:27 PM Mike Perkins wrote:</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> On 13/12/15 02:55, R. G. Newbury wrote:</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > Unfortunately, the mainline coders have used some library routines which make it even harder for</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > you. So on the Upcoming Recordings page we get 'Today' and Tomorrow instead of the 'shortdate' 12-13</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > (or Sunday 12-13'. That "feature" is buried in the code, NOT in the theme....</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> Of course, there aren't many countries in the world where there are 13 months in the year :)</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> That's the problem with internationalization: everybody has their own idea of what should be standard.</p>
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</span><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">How about ISO-8601? That's a simple, sensible, sortable standard.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"> </p></span></div></blockquote><div>That's how I write all my dates. It's internationally unambiguous and like you said, it sorts automatically (good for adding dates to a common base filename). Although it does annoy my wife because "it doesn't look right". Unfortunately, it doesn't lend itself to a "short date" format. If you drop the year, you get the US convention of month-day that everyone else hates. ;-)<br><br></div><div>Karl<br></div></div></div></div>