Markus Krötzsch wrote:
> Yes, I think we should switch to MW's formatting methods, using the content
> language.
>
> S: could you make this happen easily, or would this be difficult?
I checked it in.
$mwDateTime = date('YmdHis', $time);
if ( abs($time - strtotime($date_part)) > 0.5) {
$user_val = $wgContLang->timeanddate($mwDateTime);
} else {
$user_val = $wgContLang->date($mwDateTime);
}
This makes dates in the factbox and inline queries display in the date
and date+time format the user prefers. I don't see the French names for
months unless I change the site's $wgLanguageCode in LocalSettings.php.
You can still override this by specifying a strftime() format string in
an inline query or in a [[main display unit:=]] special property for the
attribute. I could switch that customization to use MediaWiki's format
strings (e.g. in a query
[[date of birth:=*M d]]
instead of strftime()'s
[[date of birth:=*%b %d]]
MediaWiki's format strings are based on PHP's date() format characters
but the specifics aren't documented.
I'm not sure how MediaWiki handles preferences that change page text:
does it cache different versions of the page for each locale+preference,
or does it not cache variable text, or does variable text disable caching?
Another thing I have to figure out is what ought to happen on a site
that enables dynamic dates (
$wgUseDynamicDates = true;
, see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Date_formatting_feature) so
dates turn into a pair of day and year links as they do on
wikipedia.org. User:Patrick was trying to simulate this on
ontoworld.org (which doesn't seem to have this feature enabled).
Sorry to ramble... sorry I'm not more expert on MW internals... sorry I
keep apologizing :-)
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