I don't think three letters is quite as universal as you think. It's also really common in English to use M,T,W,T,F,S,S (in context) or M,Tu,W,Th,F,Sa,Su or variations. Since we have a defacto OSM standard with two letters (the opening_hours key has over 100K uses), and it's unambiguous, this seems like a case of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 8:59 AM, Serge Wroclawski <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 4:32 AM, Janko Mihelić <[email protected]> wrote: > > It shouldn't be too hard to make a JOSM add-on that converts 3 letters > into > > 2. So that's no problem. > > You seem to be not seeing the point. > > Two letter days of the week (DOW) may be standard in German, and > that's fine. But the tags we use in OSM are in English. They aren't in > an abstracted system which we then render- we use English and then > codify from there. It's what many software projects do, and it's what > we do. > > So then we must ask "What is the standard way of representing a day of > the week in English?". The way is to look at a standard, such as the > locale (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locale) > > So if you look at your locale from a *nix system- you will see the > abday, and you will see unicode encoded strings that show the day of > the week. > > Since that is a pain to look at, we can use Python to help us: > > >>> import time > >>> time.strftime("%a") > 'Wed' > > If you aren't familiar with Python (or the C it borrows from), > strftime prints out the time, and I've given it the parameter to > display the shortened day of the week, according the locale (in my > case, en_US). > > I'm not about to say that whether we use three letters or two is the > end of the world, but I will say that we should strive to use things > that are standard- things that are defined elsewhere. Doing so will > make it easier for folks to use the software, but also easier for > programmers to have something they expect. > > - Serge > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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