Am 05.03.2009 um 12:24 schrieb Russell Keith-Magee: > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Semmel <florian.sen...@web.de> wrote: >> >> Hi fellow developers. >> >> I think that the choice for Sunday being the first day of the week is >> an obvious but really bad choice. >> >> View my ticket here: http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/10345 > ... >> I think that this choice is not good in anyway as i stated above. Any >> suggestions or other opinions? If you have a different view on things >> please tell me why. > > I agree with the Karen's comment when she closed your ticket wontfix. > There is no absolute answer to this question; no matter what value you > choose, there will be inconveniences. The conversion - if it is > required - isn't an expensive or difficult one. You insist that > 'standards' are converging on Monday as the start of the week, but you > don't actually cite any of these "standards".
The standard is ISO 8601 which is also implemented in several national and institutional standards [1] -- including EU, Japan, Canada, Australia and the US. > In fact, to the contrary > - the APIs surveyed in #7672 show Sunday=1 is the only option > available to every database backend and Python, and in many cases, > both interpretations are possible. Excuse my ignorance, but if both cases are supported, why choosing the option with less use worldwide? Cheers, Jannis 1: http://www.qsl.net/g1smd/isoimp.htm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
