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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Antoine Beaupré <anarcat <at> debian.org>

Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2022 20:00:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 27.1

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Antoine Beaupré <anarcat <at> debian.org>, 53396 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#53396: 27.1; icalendar rendering should include timezone
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2022 14:11:50 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> 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
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