On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 11:30 PM, Brian Wolff <bawo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/29/13, Sen <kik...@gmail.com> wrote: > > i know it's depend the mediawiki language,but can i change it by my own?i > > use chinese mediawiki,but i wana the mediawiki signature time format use > > english. > > > > sorry again,if this question should not ask in this maillist,plz let me > > know i should send which maillist...i very know to the maillist,and my > > english is pretty bad too. > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > Hi. > > This question is probably better suited to the mediawiki-l mailing > list then this one, but in any case here is the answer: > > > There's two internationalization changes in play here. First of all, > month names get translated. This is something that you cannot change > without modifying core (as far as I know). > > Second the date format changes (for example, where in the date the > year is put). This one you can control. Just add to the bottom of > LocalSettings.php: > > $wgDefaultUserOptions['date'] = 'mdy'; > > and you will get something like "01:22, 11月 30, 2013 (UTC)" instead of > "2013年11月30日 (六) 01:26 (UTC) ". As noted the month names are still > shown in Chinese. > > If you do something like: > > $wgDefaultUserOptions['date'] = 'ISO 8601'; > > You will get dates that are all numeric like 2013-11-30T01:28:42 > (UTC). Other options for the date format preference include dmy, ymd. > By default it has the value "default" which is equivalent to the value > "zh" in the chinese internationalization. > > --Bawolff > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > To implement what he is asking for, I hacked Parser::pstPass2() in includes/parser/Parser.php as follows: Change: $key = 'timezone-' . strtolower( trim( $tzMsg ) ); to: $key = 'signature-timezone-' . strtolower( trim( $tzMsg ) ); Change: $d = $wgContLang->timeanddate( $ts, false, false ) . " ($tzMsg)"; to: $en = Language::factory ( 'en' ); $d = $en->timeanddate( $ts, false, false ) . " ($tzMsg)"; Next, write the following PHP script and run it: <?php $abbreviations = array_keys ( DateTimeZone::listAbbreviations() ); foreach ( $abbreviations as $abbreviation ) { echo "MediaWiki:Signature-timezone-$abbreviation\n"; } This will give you the list of MediaWiki: namespace pages you need to create, e.g. MediaWiki:Signature-timezone-utc, MediaWiki:Signature-timezone-est, etc. There's probably an easier way, though. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
