More readable date format

[Bryan]

I like the idea.  strftime would be nice.

--Bryan

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On Oct 7, 2009, at 5:15 PM, Greg Ward <greg-hg at gerg.ca> wrote:

> I have written a custom log style that fixes the two things about the
> default style that annoy me the most: the list of files and the date.
> E.g.:
>
>  changeset:   9167:49b62395e910
>  user:        Greg Ward <greg-hg at gerg.ca>
>  date:        2009-09-30 16:08:11 -0400
>  files:
>    M mercurial/streamclone.py
>    M tests/test-http
>    M tests/test-http.out
>  description:
>  streamclone: partially encode filename over the wire, not for local  
> read
>
> The catch: while "2009-09-30" is a great date format for many reasons,
> it's not as human-readable as (say) "Wed Sep 30 2009".  Subversion
> gets it right by showing the date in two formats:
>
>  r33 | jrandom | 2003-06-10 16:19:48 -0400 (Tue, 10 Jun 2003) | 2  
> lines
>
> AFAICT, that's not *quite* possible with Mercurial templates.  The
> closest I have come is
>
>  date:        {date|isodatesec} ({date|date})\n
>
> which yields
>
>  date:        2009-09-30 16:08:11 -0400 (Wed Sep 30 16:08:11 2009 -0400 
> )
>
> which really is overkill.  One obvious possibility is to add a date
> filter for a short localized date, like "Wed 07 Oct 2009" or "mer 07
> oct 2009".
>
> One feature that would neat, though, would be the ability to use
> strftime() via the templating system.  E.g.
>
>  date:        {date|isodatesec} ({date|strftime:%a %d %b})
>
> Opinions?  Better ideas?
>
> Thanks --
>
> Greg
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