Ha I see, thanks Jacopo ! Yes this should be the only authorised date format everywhere indeed (not only in OFBiz I mean :o)
Jacques De : "Jacopo Cappellato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Jacques, > > I think that David refers to the yyyy-mm-dd... format, that can be > simply sorted as a string keeping the correct time sequence. > This is actually a standard de facto in ERP systems (together with the > numer representation, with the same features, of yyyymmdd... as integer) > > Jacopo > > Jacques Le Roux wrote: > > David, > > > > Please can you explain what is a descending date/time format ? I'm a bit > > lost... > > > > Thanks > > > > Jacques > > > > De : "David E Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> It's great to see effort going into this, so thanks Adrian! > >> > >> > >> Adrian Crum wrote: > >>> 5. Modify the form widget to support user selected time zones and > >>> locales. Currently the form widget forces the user to input date/time in > >>> the server's format and time zone. I haven't started on that yet. > >> 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. > >> So yeah, in general I'm a big fan of using the descending format > >> everywhere, even consumer/public facing applications (at least as > > a default, there are certainly tools to support other formats as needed for > > custom UIs). > >> -David > >> >
