[hypermail] hypermail should use the standard date format by default

From: Eduardo Pérez Ureta <eperez_at_dei.inf.uc3m.es_at_hypermail-project.org>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 23:54:29 +0000
Message-ID: <20010319235429.A3663_at_dei.inf.uc3m.es>

ISO 8601 NOW! http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html

hypermail should use the standard date format and refer time to UTC by default

• hypermail-old/src/date.c Sat Mar 3 02:29:35 2001 +++ hypermail/src/date.c Sun Mar 18 12:15:31 2001
  _at_@ -94,9 +94,13 @@
  if (set_eurodate) strftime(s, DATESTRLEN, "%a %d %b %Y - %H:%M:%S", localtime(&tp)); - else + else if (set_americandate) strftime(s, DATESTRLEN, "%a %b %d %Y - %H:%M:%S", localtime(&tp)); + else + strftime(s, DATESTRLEN, "%Y-%m-%dZ%H:%M:%S", + gmtime(&tp)); +

         sprintf(s, "%s %s", s, timezonestr);
     }


_at_@ -155,9 +159,12 @@

 	if (set_eurodate)
 	    strftime(date, DATESTRLEN, "%a %d %b %Y - %H:%M:%S %Z",
 		     localtime(&yearsecs));
-	else
+	else if (set_americandate)
 	    strftime(date, DATESTRLEN, "%a %b %d %Y - %H:%M:%S %Z",
 		     localtime(&yearsecs));
+	else
+	    strftime(date, DATESTRLEN, "%Y-%m-%dZ%H:%M:%S",
+		     gmtime(&yearsecs));
     }
     return date;
 }
--- hypermail-old/src/setup.c	Wed Mar 14 19:28:00 2001
+++ hypermail/src/setup.c	Sun Mar 18 12:15:31 2001

_at_@ -33,6 +33,7 @@

 bool set_indextable;
 bool set_iquotes;
 bool set_eurodate;
+bool set_americandate;
 bool set_require_msgids;
 bool set_discard_dup_msgids;
 bool set_usemeta;

_at_@ -216,7 +217,11 @@
 

     {"eurodate", &set_eurodate, BFALSE, CFG_SWITCH,
      "# Set this to On to display article received dates with\n"
-     "# days before months instead of months before days.\n"},
+     "# days before months.\n"},
+
+    {"americandate", &set_americandate, BFALSE, CFG_SWITCH,
+     "# Set this to On to display article received dates with\n"
+     "# months before days.\n"},
 
     {"discard_dup_msgids", &set_discard_dup_msgids, BTRUE, CFG_SWITCH,
      "# Set this to Off to accept messages with a Message-ID matching\n"


_at_@ -755,6 +760,7 @@

     printf("set_indextable = %d\n",set_indextable);
     printf("set_iquotes = %d\n",set_iquotes);
     printf("set_eurodate = %d\n",set_eurodate);
+    printf("set_americandate = %d\n",set_americandate);
     printf("set_require_msgids = %d\n",set_require_msgids);
     printf("set_discard_dup_msgids = %d\n",set_discard_dup_msgids);
     printf("set_usemeta = %d\n",set_usemeta);
--- hypermail-old/src/setup.h	Wed Mar 14 19:28:00 2001
+++ hypermail/src/setup.h	Sun Mar 18 12:15:31 2001

_at_@ -57,6 +57,7 @@

 extern bool set_indextable;
 extern bool set_iquotes;
 extern bool set_eurodate;
+extern bool set_americandate;
 extern bool set_require_msgids;
 extern bool set_discard_dup_msgids;
 extern bool set_usemeta;

Received on Tue 20 Mar 2001 02:32:36 AM GMT