Re: [PATCH 2/2] date: make "local" orthogonal to date format

John Keeping [off-list ref] writes:

On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 05:30:14PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

quoted

I think the error message would be a lot nicer if we indicate that "-"
is syntactically interesting, and say:

  fatal: unknown date-mode modifier: locale

I wonder if we'd be better just saying:

	fatal: unknown date format: short-locale

I'm not sure users will consider "local" to be a modifier, there is
simply a list of formats that happens to include pairs of matching
"-local" and "not -local" variants.

Either is acceptable and better than the 'e' output.  I think yours
is better because it would equally work well for those who think in
terms of "modifier" and those who think in terms of "flat list of
possibilities".

Thanks.