Re: Guest rant from ESR

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From: Philip Newton
Subject: Re: Guest rant from ESR
Date: 08:23 on 19 Apr 2004
On 18 Apr 2004 at 14:23, Thomas R. Sibley wrote:

> Gavin Estey wrote on 04/18/04 14:02:
[some stuff that's not relevant for this]
> 
> Tom...
> 
> ...suddenly realizing for the first time that it doesn't seem possible 
> to configure Thunderbird to use a different date format when quoting in 
> replies... MM/DD/YY is pure hatred.

That *is* pretty idiotic for a piece of software.

And I would have thought, especially, that the Thunderbird people would 
know better - somehow, a little part of me expects open[1] software to 
be a bit more sensible when it comes to configurable date formats.

[1] or whatever other buzzword you prefer: OSS/OSI-approved/Free 
Software/...

Cheers,
Philip
-- 
Philip Newton <pnewton@xxx.xx>

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