Whenever there is DD or MM format , there is a confusion. Month should be
mmm.
On Oct 10, 2014 11:23 AM, ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) viswapra...@gmail.com
wrote:
+1 Srikanth Ramakrishnan
The ISO 8601 format https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 for date too
corresponds to the same above
I am for mmm for month name
-Pavanaja
On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.com
wrote:
Whenever there is DD or MM format , there is a confusion. Month should be
mmm.
On Oct 10, 2014 11:23 AM, ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) viswapra...@gmail.com
wrote:
+1
Hi,
Apart from this, the date formats also needs to be standardised.
In India, we use dd/mm/yy as default. Whereas most editors outside
India (but editing Indian languages wiki) use mm/dd/yy format. This
cause huge confusions. eg. 09/10/14 is 09 Oct 14 or 10 Sep 14. A
simpler and better way could
Sudhanwa, while I don't know about Indian language projects, I do know that
on the English Wikipedia, we have (or atleast used to) a standard date
format of -MM-DD. This is a reversed order which I assume would be
relatively easy to follow since even machines understand it.
Cheerio.
On
Oh, thanks for bringing that up.
The Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) has information about date formats
for different languages and countries. MediaWiki already uses the CLDR for
some information, and can possibly use it for date formats as well. I'll
pass this on to the engineers.
--
Amir
+1 Srikanth Ramakrishnan
The ISO 8601 format https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 for date too
corresponds to the same above (-MM-DD) format.
Real advantages of this format are (1) Non-ambiguity, (2) Correct sort
order even when data is processed as pure text and (3) international
