Hi Danh, On 24/04/2020 01:07, Danh Doan wrote: > On 2020-04-23 21:41:49+0100, Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email> wrote: >> On 23/04/2020 20:28, Junio C Hamano wrote: >>> Danh Doan <congdanhqx@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> Would is_hhmmss() and is_yyyymmdd() be more obvious abbreviations for >> most readers? >> >> Now that I type them, they do feel that bit too long... , as naming is >> hard, maybe stick with the yms and hms, though I do keep wanting to type >> ytd for the former.. > Not sure if I interpret your opinion correctly, > Did you mean s/yms/ymd/ and s/ytd/ymd/? Yes, and then no. > > Even that, I couldn't grasp the meaning of the last phase? To explain the last part. I don't immediately recognise 'ymd' as a typical abbreviation. A common three letter abbreviation, for me, would be 'ytd' (year to date). Taken together (my miss-spelling and alternate abbreviation), it indicates that I was not tuned-in to the chosen abbreviations. -- Philip