| agray added a comment. |
This all sounds great until...
...because slashes are a hint at the American format MM/DD/YYYY, while all other punctuation characters typically hint at DD.MM.YYYY.
...which sounds completely weird to me. In fact, I raised the possibility and dismissed it as obviously not the explanation idea when I first reported this on WD:PC - "It can't be that using slashes is unique to MDY notation - I've been writing DMY dates this way all my life." :-)
Before this I'd never heard of the idea that slashes are distinctively American - it's true that it's the punctuation Americans most commonly use, but so do a lot of other people. WP's list of common national date styles has about even numbers of dd/mm and dd.mm.
This last parser sounds like it's introducing ambiguity and inconsistency that really doesn't need to be there, and there's no reason to assume that users will expect this behaviour. Can we not just turn this bit off and leave the other parsers to do their work?
Cc: daniel, Lydia_Pintscher, thiemowmde, Izno, Aklapper, agray, GoranSMilovanovic, QZanden, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Mbch331
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