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Please allow for non-US dd/mm/yy date format
date formats are for US-only (maybe UK, too, not sure). The rest of the world uses day/month/year. Please allow for that option somewhere as a preference for all the dates I see. It's really confusing to non-US people to see 7/1/09 and have to remember that's July 1, 2009 and not 7 January, 2009, which is how non-US people would see that date.
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Or scrap this US stuff and use an ISO-8601 compliant date format? (ie, yyyy-mm-dd)
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Inappropriate?NO -- we in the UK have the 'normal' date format (dd/mm/yyyy) ... and I personally HATE when the US one is forced upon me...
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Inappropriate?I see two different solutions.
One is the implicit one, when you determine the date format from the timezone. This has a certain breakdown, though, because "none" is the default. You could utilise the user's ip at first login or registration for that, but it would be no elegant solution anyway.
You could also determine it by browser language or by an explicit flag or an explicit formatstring. I would prefer the latter two. -
Inappropriate?Or just add a date format option somewhere which defaults to timezone or US (as it is now) if timezone is "none"...1 Comment Add a comment
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Inappropriate?Or scrap this US stuff and use an ISO-8601 compliant date format? (ie, yyyy-mm-dd)
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Inappropriate?I personally try to use ISO wherever I have control, so I'd be okay if that were a hard-coded option. The best would be to allow customization, using any combination of Y, M and D.
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