Re: timeanddateformats, was: why is the star in front of every info item sometimes black and sometimes red?

[Colin Baxter 😺]

>>>>> H Dieter Wilhelm <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> writes:

    > Colin Baxter 😺 <m43cap@yandex.com> writes:
    >>>>>>> H Dieter Wilhelm <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> writes:
    >> 
    >> > Eduardo Ochs <eduardoochs@gmail.com> writes: >> The highlighted
    >> stars are there to help the people who like to >> use the keys
    >> 1..9 to navigate info manuals.
    >> 
    >> > You nailed it.
    >> 
    >> > Note: Blather to come ;-)
    >> 
    >> > A far fetched analogy is writing dates in a form like 20211210.
    >> > For me it's hard to discern whether the date starts by the year
    >> > and then where month or days begin.  I'm annoyed when some >
    >> colleagues do not use the visually supporting form: 2021-12-10 >
    >> (actually this form is recommended by standard ISO 8601).
    >> 
    >> Don't forget about dates like 20211210T175343 in gnus :-)

    > Sorry, where do you see that?!  Maybe I configured above format
    > away and forgot about it.

I think gnus info suggests

#+begin_src emacs-lisp
 (setq gnus-group-line-format "%M\%S\%p\%P\%5y: %(%-40,40g%) %d\n")
#+end_src

for nndiary.

It's my very poor joke.

Best wishes,