GNU bug report logs - #53396
27.1; icalendar rendering should include timezone

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Message #23 received at 53396 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Antoine Beaupré <anarcat <at> debian.org>
Cc: 53396 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#53396: 27.1; icalendar rendering should include timezone
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2022 17:04:10 -0500

Antoine Beaupré <anarcat <at> 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.

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