| KTC added a comment. |
@thiemowmde You can accept the idea that "yyyy-mm-dd" may not make sense for some people in the world, but not when a native language reader telling you that "dd Mmm yyyy" makes even less sense? When doing localisation, if native readers are telling you that what you have make no sense in that language, stop and listen.
Either do full localisation of a string, or don't do it at all.
ISO 8601 format is a well understood international standard designed "to provide an unambiguous and well-defined method of representing dates and times, so as to avoid misinterpretation of numeric representations of dates and times, particularly when data are transferred between countries with different conventions for writing numeric dates and times" (from English Wikipedia). Why on earth would you invent a partially localised system that make no sense at all in many languages?
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