On Sat, 13 Jul 2003, Rick Measham wrote: > On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, Ben Bennett wrote: > > Does it understand 1/3/2003? If so, how does it resolve the day and > > month ambiguity? > > > On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 12:46, Dave Rolsky wrote: > > Ideally, it'd be an attribute of the locale. I bet we could figure that > > out from the date formats defined for each locale. > > Yup, that's how it works. However it's not *locked* to the locale. For > example if you're in a locale that says DD/MM/YYYY and you enter > 11/28/2003, then it assumes you mean November 28.
Hmm, I guess that makes sense. That almost seems a little _too_ clever. > Dave, the 'locale' parameter will take an object or a name (just like DT > itself does IIRC). From this we get the standard formats understood in > that locale. However if we construct using language=>'EN', then we set > the standard short format with: shortformat=>'US' or shortformat=>'EU' Now I'm confused. Are you proposing that there be a language parameter _and_ a locale parameter? -dave /*======================= House Absolute Consulting www.houseabsolute.com =======================*/
