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RFC patchdoc: change 'The standard email format' to 'The standard date format'

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

## tl;dr

2 messages between Jun 1, 2019 and Jun 2, 2019. Diffs are folded; open one to read it.

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Victory Osikwemhe· Jun 1, 2019, 20:12 UTC · lore

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>
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 Documentation/date-formats.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

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diff --git a/Documentation/date-formats.txt b/Documentation/date-formats.txt
index 6926e0a4c8..1e1acb3826 100644
--- a/Documentation/date-formats.txt
+++ b/Documentation/date-formats.txt
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Git internal format::
 	For example CET (which is 1 hour ahead of UTC) is `+0100`.
 
 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`.
 
 ISO 8601::

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Eric Sunshine· Jun 2, 2019, 06:33 UTC · re: Victory Osikwemhe · lore

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

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

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> 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 ...