Re: Time string format

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 02:25:16 +0100
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 11:15 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
> >> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 20:36:06 +0100
> >> Cc: address@hidden
> >>
> >> There is an ISO format for displaying time. See the doc string of
> >> format-time-string, at the bottom.
> >
> > I don't see any relevance of the ISO format to the issue at hand.
> 
> Why not? Is not the ISO time format relevant for all languages?

No.  You cannot force a culture to use ISO.  The ISO format, as I
understand it, is mainly for machine-readable output, not for humans.

> Or do you think of right-to-left languages?

That too, but not just.