[drupal-devel] Suggestion for dates on Drupal web site
Good morning! I would like to suggest/request a small change in settings on the Drupal web site. Currently, dates in most sections are displaying as the European DD/MM/YYYY format. I would like to suggest that, since this site has a worldwide readership, the dates be formatted in ISO-standard YYYY-MM-DD (or YYYY/MM/DD) order. As a citizen of the U.S., I realize that a lot of U.S. sites are really bad about using the U.S.-specific date format (MM/DD/YYYY), and I also feel that this is a bad practice. My sites always use ISO format, because I'm trying to be a good world citizen, and when I teach web design here in the U.S., I make a point of stressing this to my students. :-) This is a small matter, I realize, and I hope I haven't offended anyone by raising the issue, but I think it would be worth considering so that Drupal users all around the world have equal convenience in reading the dates. Kind regards, Scott -- -----------------------+------------------------------------------------------ Scott Courtney | "I don't mind Microsoft making money. I mind them scott@4th.com | having a bad operating system." -- Linus Torvalds http://4th.com/ | ("The Rebel Code," NY Times, 21 February 1999) | PGP Public Key at http://4th.com/keys/scott.pubkey
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 09:19:13 -0500, Scott Courtney <scott@4th.com> wrote:
As a citizen of the U.S., I realize that a lot of U.S. sites are really bad about using the U.S.-specific date format (MM/DD/YYYY), and I also feel that this is a bad practice. My sites always use ISO format, because I'm trying to be a good world citizen, and when I teach web design here in the U.S., I make a point of stressing this to my students. :-)
As a North American I agree that the ISO format is less confusing. It is all too easy to question what date '04-05-2004' refers to but '2004-05-04' would never be questioned (unless your native calendar is Chinese or other perhaps).
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 16:19, Scott Courtney wrote:
Currently, dates in most sections are displaying as the European DD/MM/YYYY format. I would like to suggest that, since this site has a worldwide readership, the dates be formatted in ISO-standard YYYY-MM-DD (or YYYY/MM/DD) order.
The best format in my opinion is: 15/Feb/2005. -- NSK http://portal.wikinerds.org
ISO standard is the most universal and is the most database friendly format. Databases and U.S. formatting are a tried and true headache formula when trying to distribute software globally. ISO will keep programmatic adjustments to a minimal. Carl McDade Scott Courtney wrote:
Good morning!
I would like to suggest/request a small change in settings on the Drupal web site.
Currently, dates in most sections are displaying as the European DD/MM/YYYY format. I would like to suggest that, since this site has a worldwide readership, the dates be formatted in ISO-standard YYYY-MM-DD (or YYYY/MM/DD) order.
As a citizen of the U.S., I realize that a lot of U.S. sites are really bad about using the U.S.-specific date format (MM/DD/YYYY), and I also feel that this is a bad practice. My sites always use ISO format, because I'm trying to be a good world citizen, and when I teach web design here in the U.S., I make a point of stressing this to my students. :-)
This is a small matter, I realize, and I hope I haven't offended anyone by raising the issue, but I think it would be worth considering so that Drupal users all around the world have equal convenience in reading the dates.
Kind regards,
Scott
* Carl McDade <carl_mcdade@yahoo.com> [2005-02-15 11:07]:
ISO standard is the most universal and is the most database friendly format. Databases and U.S. formatting are a tried and true headache formula when trying to distribute software globally. ISO will keep programmatic adjustments to a minimal.
ISO's also good to use all over the place since it sorts correctly in most 'sort' utils/code (as a string) :-) -- ______________________________ toddgrimason*todd-AT-slack.net
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