From: Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org>
Subject: Re: tog add century
To: Tracey Emery <tracey@traceyemery.net>, gameoftrees@openbsd.org
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2019 12:24:20 +0000

On 2019/12/03 12:14, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 02, 2019 at 10:33:37AM -0700, Tracey Emery wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I just noticed that tog doesn't display the century on the year, either.
> > This diff adds two spaces to the date column and adds the century.
> > 
> > This format change is to match the century change to got blame, if
> > anyone is interested. Perhaps I'm the only one that cringes when I see a
> > year without the century.
> > 
> > It also adds a tab after TOG_COLOR_DATE to align the 11 with the rest of
> > the defines in that block.
> 
> I decided to use two digits for the year to save space on narrow terminals.
> I'm really sorry for people from countries where MDY ordering is in use :-/

How about YYYYMMDD without the /?

I don't think it's too bad for MDY countries, most of the displayed
YY/MM/DD dates are invalid at a quick glance. Coming from DMY-land many
of them are potentially valid so more mental effort is needed.

> Could we make the number of year digits depend on the width of the screen?
> Similarly to how we do it for the commit ID column?

That would work too.