[PATCH] export: introduce 'Unix Date' header with the date spelled out

[Pierre-Yves David]

On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 05:23:21PM -0500, Greg Ward wrote:
> On 08 February 2013, Mads Kiilerich said:
> Like the feature. Not so keen on the name. Random thoughts...
> 
>     English date
>     Human date
>     Readable date
>     Text date
>     RFC822 date
> 
> Also, that date format is ... weird, because the time comes between
> the day and the year. I would prefer either something like ISO format
> 
>   1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000
> 
> or something closer to traditional English-language date formatting:
> 
>   Thu Jan 01 1970 00:00:00 +0000
> 
> ISO format has many advantages, not least the fact that the name is
> obvious:

+1 for using the, obvious, lexically sortable, ISO format and sending back the
oddly ordered english format into oblivion.

-- 
Pierre-Yves