2009/2/6 White Cat <[email protected]>:

> We are now forced to use US style dates... Thus it is the American
> Encyclopedia internationals (non USians) should feel uncomfortable in
> visiting let alone editing.

(...)

> In the past we had multiple correct ways. For example the use of ISO dates
> (aka [[yyyy-mm-dd]] dates) were encouraged. Users could alter their settings
> to display the dates in any way they please. The ISO dates were drafted as a
> compromise to the international versus US date war. Now US dates are hard
> coded. You do not get to alter it.

"hard coded"?  This is news to me and news to the Manual of Style.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOSNUM#Full_date_formatting

Perhaps you could provide some evidence to back up this assertion?

-- 
- Andrew Gray
  [email protected]

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