https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25476
--- Comment #9 from Philippe Verdy <verd...@wanadoo.fr> 2010-10-13 05:52:11 UTC --- (In reply to comment #4) > Why should we make it available for templates when we can just as well format > the time directly into users preferred time format (or the default for the > language at least)? Yes, but want I watn is that this format is NO longer static for all users. So use a template as it is easy to do, but if you use the existing builtin parser functions, it won't localize the date in a format that users can read according to their preferences. So if you want, you may implement it via a new parser function that can take into consideration the user's locale, but be prepared to exceptions, as this is not just dependant on its language. Generating a standard template would allow other improvements for the rendering, when there will be, later, more parser functions to implement it. Note that there already exists a magic keyword from which you can know the user's locale. So this can already be done with a template, without adding a new parser functions. An in the future, there could exist more magic keywords or builtin functions that will retreive other local info than just the language: there should not be any need to change the template name generated, but this template implemetnation can easily be updated to offer new customizations according to new detectable user preferences in their locale (say: language, script, 12/24h format, abbreviated/long form...): how many new parser functions will we need ? What I propose is simpler: just generate the template with a default implementation and let this implementation be customized at any time on all wikis. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
