| The_RedBurn added a comment. |
In T167788#3390329, @thiemowmde wrote:I'm afraid there is no way any parser can ever be sure what "9/7/2017" means. Even if we use your IP address or location (something we should never do because of privacy reasons), or the interface language from your preferences, it might still either mean MM/DD/YYYY or DD/MM/YYYY. The only thing we can (and want to) use is the date format from your personal preferences at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering. See https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/153211.
Actually, we could use the location, as do the Compact Language Links .
Combined if necessary with the user set language, that should give us a pretty good guess.
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