- From: Tim Streater <tim@clothears.org.uk>
- Date: 30 Mar 2012 16:41 +0100
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
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