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bug#32931: time-stamp-format: offer numeric time zones too
From: |
Stephen Gildea |
Subject: |
bug#32931: time-stamp-format: offer numeric time zones too |
Date: |
Thu, 07 Nov 2019 12:57:49 -0800 |
The time-stamp package has unusual compatibility issues that govern
when code changes are appropriate to document. In the source, it is
noted that
;;; At all times, all the formats recommended in the doc string
;;; of time-stamp-format will work not only in the current version of
;;; Emacs, but in all versions that have been released within the past
;;; two years.
The reason for this promise is that it is common for people to set
time-stamp-pattern or time-stamp-format in a local-variables section of
a file. Files so annotated may be edited by different people and with
different versions of Emacs. So that Emacs behaves consistently, the
time-stamp package recommends only formats that behave the same way
across all versions likely to be in simultaneous use.
In September I updated the documentation for changes implemented
previously; that commit included a section in NEWS. I will eventually
document the change that sparked this discussion, too, and I'll add it
to NEWS at the same time.
So while I am aware of my responsibility to document, I am also
mindful of my responsibility to not document yet.
< Stephen
- bug#32931: time-stamp-format: offer numeric time zones too, Stephen Gildea, 2019/11/06
- bug#32931: time-stamp-format: offer numeric time zones too, Robert Pluim, 2019/11/07
- bug#32931: time-stamp-format: offer numeric time zones too, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/11/07
- bug#32931: time-stamp-format: offer numeric time zones too,
Stephen Gildea <=
- bug#32931: time-stamp-format: offer numeric time zones too, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/11/07
- bug#32931: time-stamp-format: offer numeric time zones too, Stephen Gildea, 2019/11/08
- bug#32931: time-stamp-format: offer numeric time zones too, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/11/09
- bug#32931: time-stamp-format: offer numeric time zones too, Stephen Gildea, 2019/11/09
- bug#32931: time-stamp-format: offer numeric time zones too, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/11/09