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On 30 Jun 2018 at 15:27, Shal Farley wrote:

Hi all,

This week's change log:



Feel free to reply to this topic if you'd like to comment on the
changes. Or better yet, if you expect a lot of discussion start a new
topic (or rejoin an existing one) about a specific change.


> NEW: Added DD.MM.YYYY date format preference.
> NEW: Group default subscription preferences for date and time display.

Yay, so now there are three unambiguous date formats. That is, you can
always tell which you're looking at by the punctuation:
DD.MM.YYYY
MM/DD/YYYY
YYYY-MM-DD (ISO-8601)

That's fine for those of us "in the know" but that punctuation is not a
standard outside Groups.io, so for new users the first two remain ambiguous.
Use of alpha month for those two would resolve it.

Jim Fisher

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Jim,

That's fine for those of us "in the know" but that punctuation is not
a standard outside Groups.io, so for new users the first two remain
ambiguous.

True, but that's more an argument for more documentation than an argument against using distinct punctuation.

Note that we're talking about a small use case: where someone copied or screen-shot from groups.io's web interface for use as an example or answer (or the like).

Otherwise the user would be seeing the format of their own choice, and if they're uncertain (or certain that it is wrong) hopefully the user would think to look at their own Account Preferences to see what choices are available in Groups.io.

Use of alpha month for those two would resolve it.

Only if you speak English. Or the language of choice, in some future world where Groups.io has localizations to other languages.

Shal


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On 1 Jul 2018 at 11:59, Shal Farley wrote:

Jim,

> That's fine for those of us "in the know" but that punctuation is not
> a standard outside Groups.io, so for new users the first two remain
> ambiguous.

True, but that's more an argument for more documentation than an
argument against using distinct punctuation.

Note that we're talking about a small use case: where someone copied or
screen-shot from groups.io's web interface for use as an example or
answer (or the like).

Otherwise the user would be seeing the format of their own choice, and
if they're uncertain (or certain that it is wrong) hopefully the user
would think to look at their own Account Preferences to see what choices
are available in Groups.io.

> Use of alpha month for those two would resolve it.

Only if you speak English. Or the language of choice, in some future
world where Groups.io has localizations to other languages.

Yes, I can't argue with any of that. You're right as usual.

Jim--
- My thoughts on freedom (needs updating)
- political snippets, especially economic policy
- misc. snippets, some political, some not
Forget Google! I search with which doesn't spy on you