When I first got involved in internationalizing OFBiz I suggested that date/time values be displayed/entered in the format selected by the user. That suggestion was rejected - it was decided that date/time values should be entered in a uniform way - regardless of locale. Now we have users questioning this approach.
Should we consider a change? -Adrian --- On Thu, 2/25/10, Scott Gray <[email protected]> wrote: > Please post your question on the user > mailing list: [email protected] > > Thanks > Scott > > HotWax Media > http://www.hotwaxmedia.com > > On 25/02/2010, at 7:20 AM, Sebi wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > I am new at "ofbiz" and evaluating the framework. > > > > I wonder if it is possible for users to type in a > german date-format. It > > still looks like this: > > > > http://n4.nabble.com/file/n1569053/Birthdate.png > > > > I surely changed the preferences to locale "de_DE" - I > also started the > > ofBiz-server under a german locale. > > > > The (label-)output of date/times is often not > formattet: > > > > http://n4.nabble.com/file/n1569053/updated.png > > > > what can be done by > > > > > ${partyContactMech.fromDate?date?string.short} > > > > insted of > > > > ${partyContactMech.fromDate} > > > > But I found no way to manage dates in inputfields in a > similar way. > > > > Thank you for your help, I hope my english is ok so > far... :-) > > Sebi > > -- > > View this message in context: > > http://n4.nabble.com/Support-of-german-locale-tp1569053p1569053.html > > Sent from the OFBiz - Dev mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. > >
