thiemowmde added a comment.
As far as I understand the situation, it is not considered "broken". Whatever the user does, they **must** check the preview to see if the date parsers guess is correct. This won't change, no matter how good the parsers guess is. But yes, it's absolutely possible to improve the parser even further. Unfortunately, I'm not actively working on this code any more myself. Personally, I like the idea of checking the users time zone, if they provided one in their preferences. This might sound strange. After all, the user is not copy-pasting dates that are about the user, right? They might paste from all kinds of sources, American and non-American. But: I believe this would still be tremendously helpful, because the experts behavior matches the users **expectation** much, much closer then. An American user is used to 9/7/2017 becoming "September", while non-Americans are much more used to it becoming "July". Also, I believe we can safely assume that non-Americans user are more likely to paste dates from non-American sources. The amount of mistakes (e.g. when the user does **not** check the preview carefully) would be much lower this way, I feel. As a workaround it might be possible to create a gadget that kicks in when it detects an input with slashes and both numbers below 13, and asks which of the two possible interpretations the user wants. Such a gadget can be written by the community or by the Wikidata team as an opt-in feature for users who struggle with this. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167788 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: thiemowmde Cc: Tagishsimon, The_RedBurn, JAnD, Wikidata-bugs, gerritbot, Agabi10, He7d3r, matej_suchanek, Liuxinyu970226, PokestarFan, Lea_Lacroix_WMDE, daniel, Lydia_Pintscher, thiemowmde, Izno, Aklapper, agray, darthmon_wmde, Nandana, Lahi, Gq86, GoranSMilovanovic, QZanden, LawExplorer, _jensen, rosalieper, Scott_WUaS, aude, Mbch331
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