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Janne Jalkanen commented on JSPWIKI-196:
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Yah, I think this is quite valid issue, but the solution I'm not that happy 
about (I'm no fan of ISO8601 myself).  Maybe we just add the formats into the 
property files as "yet another localizable string"?  Or maybe have a property 
setting in the jspwiki.properties.

The browser locale might not though be the correct place to solve this, since 
that would mean that each comment could come with a different format...

> 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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