From 6b62fa6d3efdf623083db120ab40bdc724b8ec83 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim Parenti <tparenti@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2019 15:20:37 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Use an unambiguous format for dates.

Use month abbreviations instead of numeric months, since day-of-week
abbreviation is already locale-dependent anyway.  Putting the day-of-month
before the month abbreviation avoids the need for a comma after the
day-of-week.

Resolves #5.
---
 lib/slack_time.js | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/slack_time.js b/lib/slack_time.js
index 7fef9e8..628cf30 100644
--- a/lib/slack_time.js
+++ b/lib/slack_time.js
@@ -212,8 +212,8 @@ function currentUserInfo(everybody, userId) {
   }
 }
 
-function formatMonthDay(dateMoment) {
-  return dateMoment.format("MM-DD");
+function formatDayAndMonth(dateMoment) {
+  return dateMoment.format("D MMM");
 }
 
 function formatDayOfWeek(dateMoment) {
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ function abbreviate(string) {
 }
 
 function formatSlackDate(dateMoment) {
-  return '_' + formatDayOfWeek(dateMoment) + ' ' + formatMonthDay(dateMoment) + '_ ';
+  return '_' + formatDayOfWeek(dateMoment) + ' ' + formatDayAndMonth(dateMoment) + '_ ';
 }
 
 function formatSlackTime(dateMoment) {