Talk:1467: Email

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The strftime format used is probably %Y-%M-%D %h:%m:%s, which visibly looks as if it will yield a date and time, yet doesn't. A more correct format would have been %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S. ‎197.234.242.236 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

There's a strange thing with the date string : why 30 ? The timestamp shows 31 as a day in month and 5:54 which doesn't match 30... 54 looks like the week in year but matches with the minutes. Goufalite (talk) 09:57, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

What on earth does 'Created for a live studio audience mean'?! 141.101.106.143 10:03, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

"Unix" is misleading. Sure, unix "date" command is using this kind of formating, but it's also in C standard (specifically, C89 and C99) and available in most other programming languages standard libraries (including perl, php, python, ruby), often as ONLY way to format date without fetching every component separately. -- Hkmaly (talk) 13:15, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

I'm fairly confident that I used the term "email" before 1993, because of what I was doing before that date. But I also couldn't give any definitive sources. And I mean the name, not just the general Port 25 thing or its predecessors. But meh, no real proof unless I get lucky digging around in 5.25" floppies for old backups that I doubt I could read anyway... 141.101.98.191 13:23, 31 December 2014 (UTC)