- From: Bronislav Klučka <Bronislav.Klucka@bauglir.com>
- Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 20:31:35 +0200
On 30.3.2012 17:41, Tim Streater wrote: > On 30 Mar 2012 at 16:05, Jukka K. Korpela<jkorpela at cs.tut.fi> wrote: > >> 2012-03-30 17:22, Henri Sivonen wrote: >> >>> 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), >> It?s not smart to use ISO dates, which are not what the majority of >> mankind is used to. Sometimes ISO dates are the least if evils, but they >> are not proper localisation. > +1 > >>> 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. >> But what might that be, and how does it relate to the formats that >> <input type=date> and relatives are supposed to deal with? >> >> There is absolutely no way in HTML, in HTML 4 or in HTML5, to say that >> input of dates should be accepted according to a specific convention. >> What users get is an US convention, or a local convention as per the >> browser, quite independently of the (declared or implied) locale of the >> page. > There's no way to ask the OS what the user prefers, I suppose? > > -- > Cheers -- Tim Well you can ask Windows and Linux for date/time format settings... dont know about other OS though... Brona
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