Thanks a lot Adrian for this work. I am really interested in it. David E Jones escribió: > > I'm not totally sure what you have in mind here, but I'll keep an eye > out for more info from you and see if I can help out. > > IMO the main priority for this is to properly support time zones. I'm > still a big fan of the descending date/time format instead of using > localized formats. The problem with those is that there are either too > few or too many "standards" and so unless you show a format string > with every input box it can be VERY confusing and frustrating to > figure out how to type in a date and/or time. We also need to keep in > the mind that the popup window for date selection would need to have > something passed into it so it knows how to format the date/time > string based on the selection. IMO descending date/time is great for queries on databases but not for human input. Most ERPs I've seen have support for localized formats.
I agree however about the "too many standards" problem. To solve this either a properties file with "locale-date_format" entries or a new entity with this info could be used. WDYT? -- Daniel