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Key: JSPWIKI-245
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JSPWIKI-245
Project: JSPWiki
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Localization
Affects Versions: 2.6.1
Environment: Any
Reporter: Goran Karlic
Priority: Trivial
+This issue was changed to better reflect the initiated discussion+
Focus is on:
* How DateTimes are *stored* internally, for example as page content or
metadata (comments etc.)
* How they are *rendered* to end-users in their browsers
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The original issue name was: _Date and time formats according to ISO 8601_.
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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