On 30.3.2012 17:41, Tim Streater wrote:
On 30 Mar 2012 at 16:05, Jukka K. Korpela<[email protected]> wrote:
2012-03-30 17:22, Henri Sivonen wrote:
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Matthew Nuzum<[email protected]> wrote:
For example, maybe a site can't afford translation but a small library
could be included that formats dates and numbers based on a user's
language preference. No more wondering if 2/3/12 is in March or in
February.
The reader doesn't know that the site tries to be smart about dates
(but not smart enough to just use ISO dates),
It’s not smart to use ISO dates, which are not what the majority of
mankind is used to. Sometimes ISO dates are the least if evils, but they
are not proper localisation.
+1
so scrambling the order
of date components not to match the convention of the language of the
page is probably worse than using the convention that's congruent with
the language of the page.
But what might that be, and how does it relate to the formats that
<input type=date> and relatives are supposed to deal with?
There is absolutely no way in HTML, in HTML 4 or in HTML5, to say that
input of dates should be accepted according to a specific convention.
What users get is an US convention, or a local convention as per the
browser, quite independently of the (declared or implied) locale of the
page.
There's no way to ask the OS what the user prefers, I suppose?
--
Cheers -- Tim
Well you can ask Windows and Linux for date/time format settings... dont
know about other OS though...
Brona
