Again on feeds in Gemini format

[Luke Emmet]

On 19-Nov-2020 18:09, colecmac at protonmail.com wrote:
> The other small issue I see is people who naturally separate the date 
> and post
> with some other character. Like this:
>
> 2020-02-01 - Some other post
> 2020-01-01 - My first post
>
>
> This would mean their title starts with a dash. Not great, but I'd say that's a
> acceptable issue to have. It would be nice if the spec excluded certain characters
> from the beginning maybe, like all whitespace, dashes, colons, etc.

I support this optional hyphen (not sure the others are really needed 
though tbh). My own implementation does this. It feels to me a very 
natural way to write the gemlog entry title.

I'll have to get my mind around the year/month/date format - it feels 
less natural since no one uses that in normal speech, but I'll 
definitely get there if this is conventionalised. I see it is probably 
the best way to prevent ambiguity about whether 2/1/2020 is 2nd Jan or 
1st of Feb.

On the timestamp issue, I think we can live without them, but if some 
users really want to put them in for disambiguation, we shouldn't shout 
it down. But please the *recommendation* should be just to use the date 
in almost all instances.

  - Luke