Yes, using <translate> for the {{#time:}} function works well, I have done
so years ago already. If it's not too late and if nobody beats me to it, I
could help set this up for this page tonight (my time), Nick.

lør. 21. aug. 2021, 10:35 skrev <[email protected]>:

> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 11:12 PM Nick Wilson (Quiddity) <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> @Petr, good question.
>> My goal with using the #time function was to make future re-uses of the
>> message as simple as possible, by not requiring any updates from individual
>> translators whenever it next needs to be sent.
>>
>
> Yes, that is indeed a good idea, definitely better than using
> untranslatable English date or something like that! The only issue is the
> used format.
>
>
>> I had thought this method would work (if not perfectly, then at least
>> well enough for each reader to understand it).
>>
>
> Yeah, I believe the readers should understand the result all right, it’s
> just that it’s obviously non-Czech, it reads artificial/strange.
>
>
>> If you/anyone knows of a better way to achieve this goal, I'd be happy to
>> learn and use it!
>>
>
> I thought marking the _format string_ for translation _might_ work? I. e.
> let the translators translate the “l F d H:i e” string inside the #time
> invocation; e.g. for Czech, I’d translate that to “I j. xg. Y, H:i e”. (It
> might need an explanatory documentation for  translators – do translatable
> pages support /qqq documentation?) But I don’t know, does translation work
> inside parser functions, or will it break somehow?
>
> Even though MediaWiki does know the proper date/time format for every
> language (and allows the user to select his/her preferred), it uses these
> for outputting timestamps on e.g. history pages (or formatting the ~~~~
> signatures). But I don’t think there is a magic word / parser function /
> something which would provide this information into wikitext? (Yeah, the
> user-configured option cannot be sent to the parser, as it would break
> caching, but at least the default format for the content language? I guess
> not.)
>
> -- [[cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec]]
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