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[jira] Commented: (JSPWIKI-196) Date and time format accoding to
ISO 8601
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JSPWIKI-196?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12571207#action_12571207 ]
Florian Holeczek commented on JSPWIKI-196:
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What exactly do you mean?
If you just want to change the standard setting to an international standard, while preserving the admin and user option to select a localized/custom format, I think that's fine!
If you want to generally change the format to the above cited ones, I must say this isn't localization but the opposite. I've recently added some formats for Germany. BTW, de.wikipedia.org says for me "Diese Seite wurde zuletzt am 19. Februar 2008 um 21:41 Uhr geändert.".
> Date and time format accoding to ISO 8601
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>
> Key: JSPWIKI-196
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JSPWIKI-196
> Project: JSPWiki
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Localization
> Affects Versions: 2.6.1
> Environment: Any
> Reporter: Goran Karlic
> Priority: Trivial
>
> We have multiple occurences of hard-coded or context-unaware DateTime to String conversions (page properties, JSPs, templates).
> My proposal is to rely on an international standard instead of using an invented default. The current international standard is ISO 8601 (s. Wikipedia). My further proposal is to show time with the precision to the second, as the SI unit system defines the second as the basic unit of time. Furthermore "GMT" is replaced by "UTC" and they might differ up to a second (s. Wikipedia).
> I think this will make unlocalized strings more transparent to the users and easier to decode correctly (consider 02/03/08 - is it in the future or in the past - or might it even be the current time?!).
> Following this proposal java format strings allowed for above cases would be:
> (1) Simple date: "yyyy-MM-dd" ("The daily mail for 2008-02-20 was sent")
> (2) Date and time
> (2.1) Explicit time context: "yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ssZ" ("User gkarlic made this at 2008-02-20 22:38:10+0100")
> (2.2) Implicit time context: "yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss" ("This server lives on CET, here it is 2008-02-20 22:38:10")
> Where (2.1) would be used for strings that might emerge from different time-zones.
> If others agree with this proposal, I would gladly make the required changes.
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