Adrian Crum wrote:
David E Jones wrote:
Please step outside of yourself a little bit and realize that your
experiences are not the same as the whole world and that perhaps
you're not in a position to speak for the whole world.
lol - That's the position *you've* taken, not me. Daniel and I have
expressed a different view than yours, and you're trying to argue that
yours is the "best" one. I'm trying to make a point that we have two
different requirements, therefore OFBiz should attempt to accomodate
both requirements. You're saying that the OFBiz users who have different
requirements than yours don't matter, or that they aren't well traveled,
or they are confused and don't know what's best for them.
I may just be writing this because I'm damn sick (no solid food for 6 days now) and in a
bad mood... but I DARE you to back up the words your speaking on my behalf with text from
what I actually wrote, especially the "You're saying that the OFBiz users who have
different requirements than yours don't matter". If I mis-wrote that badly, I should
just give up now.
> Also, which systems or
even types of systems have you used?
OFBiz is (or aspires to be!) a global friendly corporate scale ERP
system.
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wrong about the format? What about the poor users (like me!) who
travel and use web sites around the world and always have to guess
about the date format, sometimes getting it wrong and would really
just like to have thing
s be consistent and in a format that is sortable and makes sense so I
can think of time increments largest to smallest?
Let's apply the same argument to currency. Why should we support
anything other than US dollars? It shouldn't take long for users
accustomed to other currency to adapt, right? Why does OFBiz format
currency according to locale? Aren't those currency formatting
differences "funny local customs" too?
False analogy.
I think you're making this a bigger issue than it needs to be. All of
the date/time formatting has to be run through some kind of conversion
method anyway, so why not add to that method a simple if statement that
checks a property in general.properties? If the server is set up to use
yyyy-mm-dd formatting, then use it. Otherwise, format the date/time
according to the user's locale. It doesn't require any additional
programming effort. Problem solved. Everybody's happy.
This seems strangely familiar...
-David
