| deryckchan added a comment. |
In T63958#3284229, @thiemowmde wrote:@deryckchan, The formatted date is what appears in the edit field. We do not want to show the unformated YYYY-MM-DD there as this would be even more confusing, so we show it formatted.
I must argue that it is actually more confusing to show partially localised "dd Mmm yyyy". Most users of the internet understand yyyy-mm-dd regardless of mother language and Wikidata users in particular are used to language fallback chains.
@thiemowmde : Imagine your software displays "2017Jahr5Monat22Tag" (which is the Chinese format string with German words substituted in). This is how non-"dd Mmm yyyy" users currently feel when we use Wikidata. It's worse than defaulting to "2017-05-22" "May 22 2017".
May I suggest that we actually display "yyyy-mm-dd" until language-specific date formats may be used?
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