Re: Suggestions for hypermail - I may even be willing to help

On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Craig A Summerhill wrote:

> > Ideally, the dates should be formatted using some kind of "%y %m %d"-type
> > coded strings.
>
> Given that it is 16 March 1999, I think that should be %Y %m %d... B^)

Oh. Right ;-)

> Actually, one of the problems with many of the archive files I work with
> is that the date format exists in the Date: field of the message in
> several different formats:
>
> Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 15:12:22
> Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 15:12:22
> Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 15:12:22 -0500
> Date: 2 Mar 99 15:12:22
> Date: Tue, 02 Mar 99 15:12:22 -0800
>
> I wouldn't mind seeing these date formats all normalized to some extent
> in the markup of HTML. (It might not be a bad idea to maintain the
> original format as a <!--Comment-->, but display a Zulu of GMT time. Or
> vice-a-versa.)

If anyone here had a little time over, they could get the source for the GNU date command (used in the Linux distributions) and possibly "borrow" the date scanning functions of that tool. It does a very good job at scanning most weird date strings. It would be a great leap towards better date sorting and a single date format in the HTML output.

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             Daniel Stenberg - http://www.fts.frontec.se/~dast
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