Folks,
I fixed a bunch of issues on the tracker concerning date handling in
plugins and tags. However, I also noticed that it's quite
complicated right now - I don't really understand what is going on -
and the date options offered by the user settings are pretty limited
right now.
Anyway, what I did is that I created three basic time formats,
denoted by Preferences.TimeFormat (TIME, DATE, DATETIME), and put
locale-default formats in the CoreResources bundle. This allows
localization of most plugins and should cover most of the options
that we do.
However, there are still some oddities in how the date formats get
chosen, so don't be surprised how they are working right now. I
think the proper way should be
1) If there is an user preference for the time format, use that.
2) If the user has set a language preference, use the proper default
format from CoreResources for that language
3) If there is a locale preference from the browser, use the proper
default format from CoreResources
4) Use the English default format from CoreResources
But I'm not sure whether this is happening the way it should be. If
there are good ideas, let me know...
/Janne
