From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3688 invoked by alias); 25 Jan 2018 00:45:51 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-alpha-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-alpha-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 3671 invoked by uid 89); 25 Jan 2018 00:45:50 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=month, day X-HELO: aev204.rev.netart.pl X-Spam-Score: 0 Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 00:45:00 -0000 From: Rafal Luzynski Reply-To: Rafal Luzynski To: libc-alpha@sourceware.org Message-ID: <2074921143.499812.1516841147600@poczta.nazwa.pl> In-Reply-To: <1090774665.1268651.1516745363342@poczta.nazwa.pl> References: <1802414843.37687.1515744747279@poczta.nazwa.pl> <1927758682.38060.1515745107778@poczta.nazwa.pl> <49ea50a9-3cca-bbfe-8c75-41ea603d1a58@pacific.net> <232736801.586762.1516016805848@poczta.nazwa.pl> <1451718525.153086.1516445418821@poczta.nazwa.pl> <1069394619.57314.1516610620585@poczta.nazwa.pl> <1090774665.1268651.1516745363342@poczta.nazwa.pl> Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 5/6] Documentation to the above changes (bug 10871). MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-Client: com.openexchange.ox.gui.dhtml X-SW-Source: 2018-01/txt/msg00773.txt.bz2 I have received a comment from Gnulib maintainers that this documentation is too ambiguous because does not define which date format should be considered "full" and which should be considered "month standalone". I have explained that the date is "full" if there is a day number and a month name (the week day and the year number are optional) and the month name is "standalone" when there is no day number (it may be just the month name alone, or if a year number is added this still counts as standalone). It has been requested to add this definition to the glibc documentation. But, OTOH, I can't guarantee this works the same in all languages which have this issue. Maybe we should add a phrase "in many languages" or "in most of the languages which need this feature"? Any suggestions how to fix the documentation? Does anybody want to commit immediately? Regards, Rafal