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Goran Karlic commented on JSPWIKI-196:
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The only thing I would like to change are the hard-coded and/or localization 
context unaware strings (f. i, the time inserted for new comments by 
"Comment.jsp").

I do not wish to take or modify the possibilty for the user / admin to change 
the preferences. That, indeed, would be the opposite to localization.

Wikipedia is mentioned above as a source of information (reference), not as an 
expample.

> Date and time format accoding to ISO 8601
> -----------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: JSPWIKI-196
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JSPWIKI-196
>             Project: JSPWiki
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Localization
>    Affects Versions: 2.6.1
>         Environment: Any
>            Reporter: Goran Karlic
>            Priority: Trivial
>
> We have multiple occurences of hard-coded or context-unaware DateTime to 
> String conversions (page properties, JSPs, templates).
> My proposal is to rely on an international standard instead of using an 
> invented default. The current international standard is ISO 8601 (s. 
> Wikipedia). My further proposal is to show time with the precision to the 
> second, as the SI unit system defines the second as the basic unit of time. 
> Furthermore "GMT" is replaced by "UTC" and they might differ up to a second 
> (s. Wikipedia).
> I think this will make unlocalized strings more transparent to the users and 
> easier to decode correctly (consider 02/03/08 - is it in the future or in the 
> past - or might it even be the current time?!).
> Following this proposal java format strings allowed for above cases would be: 
> (1) Simple date: "yyyy-MM-dd" ("The daily mail for 2008-02-20 was sent")
> (2) Date and time
> (2.1) Explicit time context: "yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ssZ" ("User gkarlic made this 
> at 2008-02-20 22:38:10+0100")
> (2.2) Implicit time context: "yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss" ("This server lives on 
> CET, here it is 2008-02-20 22:38:10")
> Where (2.1) would be used for strings that might emerge from different 
> time-zones.
> If others agree with this proposal, I would gladly make the required changes.

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