[SOLVED] Mr. Volkerding please release 15.0 as soon as possible even sooner
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Haha. It seems that is where things are. Slackware 15 has been beyond awesome for quite awhile, RC1 confirmed this with proper testing.
Only noticed today about RC2. Currently downloading, yey.
From reading release history, I expected the release sooner. Seems this might be the longest beta-rc-release for any Slackware version, which might be good, but yeah, the road to perfection
Slackware 15 will be (is already) great. It will be interesting to see where things go towards 15.1 to polish it even further.
All-numerical dates are ambiguous and should not be used; the iso 8601 is all-numerical and therefor ambiguous and therefor useless.
The only proper date format is:
day of month (01..31)
three letter abbreviated month name (Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec)
four digit year
This is un-ambiguous. And the order doesn't matter.
And just to pre-empt some of your comments - I live in a country where English is not the primary language (not even secondary), but every calendar here has local month names and English month names.
Regarding the topic of this thread:
While I appreciate the designation of RC2 (incl. "a much harder freeze") (Thank You, Mr. Volkerding), but the guessing game continues.
I do not understand the resistance by Mr. Volkerding to publishing a check-list/todo-list for 15.0 on his website. Hopefully this would be a short list by now.
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I hope he will un-stick himself ...
The opposite of stuck is un-stuck. If AlienBOB wants Pat to un-stuck himself, that means Pat is stuck now. Stop changing the language.
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FooBar!!!
No wonder people can not communicate properly anymore with each other.
three letter abbreviated month name (Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec)
four digit year
This is un-ambiguous. And the order doesn't matter.
And just to pre-empt some of your comments - I live in a country where English is not the primary language (not even secondary), but every calendar here has local month names and English month names.
I used that format when I was in the military. I now prefer when written to use November 20, 2021 or Nov 20, 2021. For data or file names with dates I prefer 20211120. My Plasma Regional Settings is set to the format you prefer 20 Nov 2021 for short. One annoyance in my opinion, is customizing is not that easy. You have to pick a regional format that suites what you want for each setting. That and Dolphin keep setting my date preferences back to Relative.
Now back to our regularly scheduled thread subject.
I'll be glad when 15.0 is realized, but since I have been using -current for so long, well before 14.2 it not a really big deal for me. When 15.0 arrives, it arrives.
Last edited by chrisretusn; 11-20-2021 at 01:24 AM.
All-numerical dates are ambiguous and should not be used; the iso 8601 is all-numerical and therefor ambiguous and therefor useless.
The only proper date format is:
day of month (01..31)
three letter abbreviated month name (Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec)
four digit year
This is un-ambiguous. And the order doesn't matter.
That way of doing it messes up the sorting of files in the shell and in file managers. I can easily sort by date if I name directories 2021-11-20, 2021-11-21, etc.
You are absolutely wrong that the ISO standard is ambiguous. It is ambiguous only because people persist with their own local formats.
Last edited by Gerard Lally; 11-20-2021 at 04:12 AM.
That way of doing it messes up the sorting of files in the shell and in file managers. I can easily sort by date if I name directories 2021-11-20, 2021-11-21, etc.
You are absolutely wrong that the ISO standard is ambiguous. It is ambiguous only to those who persist with their own local variations.
Agreed
And I prefer to have this :
Code:
Screenshot-20211120-105522.png
rather than:
Code:
Screenshot-Nov.\ 20\ 2021\ 10:55:22.png
Last edited by marav; 11-20-2021 at 04:41 AM.
Reason: typo
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