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Re: Time string format
From: |
Lennart Borgman |
Subject: |
Re: Time string format |
Date: |
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 13:08:19 +0100 |
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
>> Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 02:25:16 +0100
>> Cc: address@hidden
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 11:15 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> >> From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
>> >> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 20:36:06 +0100
>> >> Cc: address@hidden
>> >>
>> >> There is an ISO format for displaying time. See the doc string of
>> >> format-time-string, at the bottom.
>> >
>> > I don't see any relevance of the ISO format to the issue at hand.
>>
>> Why not? Is not the ISO time format relevant for all languages?
>
> No. You cannot force a culture to use ISO. The ISO format, as I
> understand it, is mainly for machine-readable output, not for humans.
It was invented for paper format from the beginning. The purpose was
mainly avoiding misunderstandings. (But US did not adapt it so the
misunderstandings continued.)
>> Or do you think of right-to-left languages?
>
> That too, but not just.
Don't they have a common standardized time format?
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