In Dutch texts, all of the stupid forms are present. Nevertheless, it might help having rules forcing them into the official Dutch standard. But then, most CMS's have to be tweaked to show a correct Dutch date.
Had to dive deep in my Joomla to get that fixed... I will think about these 'forcing' rules first, then maybe have a look at this java rule. Ruud > R.J. Baars <r.j.ba...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > >> A different question: what about dates like '08-07-2014'or '2014/08/07' >> One cannot tell which is month and which is day, isn't it? Are both >> options considered then? And what of notations '04/05/06'; it is >> completely unclear which is month, year and day. >> >> (All cases actually are in source texts ...) >> >> Ruud > > Hi Ruud > > In French, I detect at least wrong dates such as: > > * Jeudi 29 août 2014: it's not Jeudi (=Thursday) but Vendredi (=Friday) > * Jeudi 29/08/2014 or Jeudi 28/8/2014 > * Jeudi 2014/08/29 or Jeudi 2014/8/28 > > The 3rd one (yyyy/mm/dd) is uncommon in French, but it's > not ambiguous so I handle it. > > The French date checker currently ignores dates such as: > * 08/28/2014: American date mm/dd/yyyy, which are not used > in French anyway. Almost nobody would understand such a > formatted date in French as I suspect in most other > languages other than American English. > * 08/28/14: 2 digits for year is deemed too ambiguous. I > Is it year 2014 or 1914 or even something else? > I could put a heuristic such as year 1x or 1x is more like 201x > and year 9x is more likely 199x. But I'd rather avoid false > positives caused by such guesses. > * abbreviated days or months. They are uncommon > in French unlike in English dates. But I may change my > mind about them. > > Regards > Dominique > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Slashdot TV. > Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. > http://tv.slashdot.org/ > _______________________________________________ > Languagetool-devel mailing list > Languagetool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/languagetool-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ Languagetool-devel mailing list Languagetool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/languagetool-devel