Re: [RFC PATCH] doc: change 'The standard email format' to 'The standard date format'

From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Jun 2, 2019, 06:33 UTC
Message-ID: <CAPig+cQ4+nCLfrh2s76_RbLuGCOt7C3xu9HoSQstAeB585vZBA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20190601201212.19165-1-zombieleetnca@gmail.com>

On Sat, Jun 1, 2019 at 4:12 PM Victory Osikwemhe <zombieleetnca@gmail.com> wrote:

Show 12 quoted lines

> The current content of date-formats.txt under the RFC 2822 section
> specifies 'The standard email format' whereas the format specified
> is a date format
>
> Signed-off-by: Victory Osikwemhe <zombieleetnca@gmail.com>
> ---
> diff --git a/Documentation/date-formats.txt b/Documentation/date-formats.txt
> @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Git internal format::
>  RFC 2822::
> -       The standard email format as described by RFC 2822, for example
> +       The standard date format as described by RFC 2822, for example
>         `Thu, 07 Apr 2005 22:13:13 +0200`.

Given that not everyone is going to know (or be motivated to discover) that RFC 2822 is about email, I wonder if this change could make the text even more self-describing by instead saying this:

    The standard email date format ...