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bug#53396: 27.1; icalendar rendering should include timezone


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: bug#53396: 27.1; icalendar rendering should include timezone
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2022 05:37:03 +0300

> Resent-From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
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> Cc: 53396@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2022 17:04:10 -0500
> 
> Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org> writes:
> 
> >  1. the default date format is American. I understand Americans first
> >     built Emacs, but its use has largely spread outside of the United
> >     States of America which has another, standard, time format called
> >     ISO 8601. workaround: (setq calendar-date-style 'iso)
> 
> Why not change the `calendar-date-style' default to `iso'?
> 
> It seems overly US-centric to prefer `american' when most of the rest of
> the world does not use that particular style.

IMNSHO, 'iso' is a bad default because no one uses it.

If we don't want to be "US-centric", we should determine the default
from the user's locale.





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