Re: refine Insert Date options

[Steve H. <dig...@mi...>]

From: Matt Wilkie, Feb 2, 2005 12:20 PM
> 
> I'd like to change the default Insert Date (F11) behaviour so that
> instead of 2005-02-02 I get 2005-Feb-02.
> 
> I am forever confused about whether 02-02 is month-day or day-month.
> You never know what the person on the other end is thinking either.
> ;) (didn't the whole Y2K thing teach us to avoid ambiguity when not
> necesary?)

Just remember that it goes from largest to smallest. :)

The current implementation (Insert > Date/Time) is based on the
following argument:

    http://www.saqqara.demon.co.uk/datefmt.htm
    (also: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html)

However, I feel your pain. I myself do genealogy, in which it is
customary to use "2 February 2005" which has nothing to do with ISO,
but IMO reads better. I also like "2005 February 2" which is easy to
read, but which is more ISOesque.

How about this: What if we make F11(x2) open a menu where you can
decide (like the add-on), and F11 (once) enters the default or
whatever was entered last time?

What other incantations does everybody want? Should we also make the
"2005-Feb-02" format available without spaces? How about "2 Feb 2005"?
(This is going to be quite a menu. Its times like these that I wish
Vim dialogs had a list box. :)


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