Subject: Re: bug#53396: 27.1; icalendar rendering should include timezone

From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2022 14:11:50 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

> > 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.

Well, some countries do use it (including my own):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Adoption_as_national_standards
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country

In any case, while I do think better localization would be great, that
is a larger task and orthogonal to adopting ISO 8601 in this case.  I
think that Emacs should follow international standards by default.

BTW, shouldn't the ISO 8601 default be "year-month-day"?  It is
documented to be "year/month/day".  See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601