| Message ID | 20190601201212.19165-1-zombieleetnca@gmail.com (mailing list archive) |
|---|---|
| State | New, archived |
| Headers | show |
| Series | [RFC] doc: change 'The standard email format' to 'The standard date format' | expand |
On Sat, Jun 1, 2019 at 4:12 PM Victory Osikwemhe <zombieleetnca@gmail.com> wrote: > The current content of date-formats.txt under the RFC 2822 section > specifies 'The standard email format' whereas the format specified > is a date format > > Signed-off-by: Victory Osikwemhe <zombieleetnca@gmail.com> > --- > diff --git a/Documentation/date-formats.txt b/Documentation/date-formats.txt > @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Git internal format:: > RFC 2822:: > - The standard email format as described by RFC 2822, for example > + The standard date format as described by RFC 2822, for example > `Thu, 07 Apr 2005 22:13:13 +0200`. Given that not everyone is going to know (or be motivated to discover) that RFC 2822 is about email, I wonder if this change could make the text even more self-describing by instead saying this: The standard email date format ...
diff --git a/Documentation/date-formats.txt b/Documentation/date-formats.txt index 6926e0a4c8..1e1acb3826 100644 --- a/Documentation/date-formats.txt +++ b/Documentation/date-formats.txt @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Git internal format:: For example CET (which is 1 hour ahead of UTC) is `+0100`. RFC 2822:: - The standard email format as described by RFC 2822, for example + The standard date format as described by RFC 2822, for example `Thu, 07 Apr 2005 22:13:13 +0200`. ISO 8601::
The current content of date-formats.txt under the RFC 2822 section specifies 'The standard email format' whereas the format specified is a date format Signed-off-by: Victory Osikwemhe <zombieleetnca@gmail.com> --- Documentation/date-formats.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)