| Nikki added a comment. |
In T63958#3284653, @deryckchan wrote:@thiemowmde : Imagine your software displays "2017Jahr5Monat22Tag" (which is the Chinese format string with German words substituted in). This is how users of non-"dd Mmm yyyy" languages currently feel when we use Wikidata. It's worse than defaulting to "2017-05-22" or even "May 22 2017".
I'm not a native or even fluent speaker of Chinese (or Japanese or Korean), so maybe you would disagree, but I think a better analogy is: Imagine being presented with "30 10 minutes 3" as a length of time in English.
English speakers might eventually figure out that it's supposed to mean "3 hours 10 minutes 30 seconds" but the parts are in the wrong order and two of the expected words are missing, which results in something that looks like complete nonsense. Writing "2017Jahr5Monat22Tag" in German is definitely weird, but I don't think it has the same effect on the comprehensibility.
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