[vorbis] Tag changes

[Beni Cherniavksy]

On 2002-04-09, David Gasaway wrote:
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Setup Pine to use "On _DATEISO_, _FROM_ wrote:" and leave in peace ;-)

> John Wedoff wrote:
>
> > As for me, I'd love to hear a legitimate reason *not* to use ISO 8601, but
> > I'm not counting on it.
>
It should be noted that the reason to use ISO 8601 is precisely Human
Readability: what do you make of 03/04/02?  2002-03-04 is unambigous to
all humans.  Even a person that never sought it can figure out that the
year coming first is like most signifact digits first in numbers, so the
second is month and the last is the day.

A second reason is automatically correct sorting.

> As Beni has said, he would like to use Hebrew dates and such.

For 2 or 3 songs out of my hundreds...  A stronger case is

DATE="50's anniversary of Foo Bar event"

I might not know when that was.  This is a date after all, LOCATION,
COMMENT or other suggestions are less appropriate IMHO.

Hey, do we miss an EVENT tag (in case of DATE="Fred Barny's birthday", it
might be more in-place)?  How do you record that given piece is recorded
from concert X?  VERSION?  What's if it's a singular performance
(improvisation, a speech from said event specific to it, etc.) - VERSION
seems inappropriate.

Anyway I strongly like ISO 8601 (especially that my hand watch uses it ;-)
but would expect programs no to crash when my I feed them with
DATE="quux"...

> I am also considering my personal favorite date format: 09-Apr-2002.
>
Unsortable without specific support (OK, unix has sort -m IIRC).


-- 
Beni Cherniavsky <cben at tx.technion.ac.il>

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