- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:22:11 +0300
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote: > For example, maybe a site can't afford translation but a small library > could be included that formats dates and numbers based on a user's > language preference. No more wondering if 2/3/12 is in March or in > February. The reader doesn't know that the site tries to be smart about dates (but not smart enough to just use ISO dates), so scrambling the order of date components not to match the convention of the language of the page is probably worse than using the convention that's congruent with the language of the page. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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