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It would be nice if Mailman, especially the pipermail archives, can use the international ISO 8601 date format. Also the website could use that throughout. Currently there is a mixture of different date formats.

= List.org website =

list.org uses different date formats

The current stable GNU Mailman version is2.1.10, released on'''21-Apr-2008'''. ( [[http://www.list.org/|http://www.list.org/]] )

'''28 Apr''' ( [[http://wiki.list.org/dashboard.action|http://wiki.list.org/dashboard.action]] )

'''2008/04/10''' in url ( [[http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/2008/04/10/Mailman+3.0+alpha+1+released|http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/2008/04/10/Mailman+3.0+alpha+1+released]] )

'''Apr 10, 2008''' in text ( [[http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/2008/04/10/Mailman+3.0+alpha+1+released|http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/2008/04/10/Mailman+3.0+alpha+1+released]] )

'''September 12, 2007''' [[http://www.list.org/mailman-member/index.html|http://www.list.org/mailman-member/index.html]]

= Pipermail =

Instead of

[[http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/tango-l/2006-October/002263.html|http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/tango-l/2006-October/002263.html]]

this would be an improvement:

[[http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/tango-l/2006-10/002263.html|http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/tango-l/2006-10/002263.html]]

even better to incorporate the exact date (if not configurable use UTC time?) in the URL.

[[http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/tango-l/2006-10-30/002263.html|http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/tango-l/2006-10-30/002263.html]]

other: '''April 2024''' !!! [[http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/|http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/]]

== Further thoughts ==

Does one need the "002263" at all? If the full time is used

[[http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/tango-l/2006-10-30T18:12:14|http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/tango-l/2006-10-30T18:12:14]]

maybe only a disambiguater needs to be added for message at the same second?
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