Why do you want to force me to see US-style dates? Inches? Fahrenheits? Ounces?
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Andrew Gray <andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk>wrote: > 2009/2/8 White Cat <wikipedia.kawaii.n...@gmail.com>: > > Hard coded in the context of my message is when dates are typed out. Like > > January, 20 1956 rather than soft coded [[1956-01-20]]. > > Ideally all dates should always be soft coded and be modified by users > > preferences. In reality the exact opposite of this is done. > > So your "hard coded" to use American dates is something that can be > got around by, er, the editor not writing American dates? I am not > seeing this as quite the catastrophe you are, and you could equally > present it as the wiki being "forced" to use non-American date > styles... > > As for the underlying debate, we have thrashed out the date-linking > issue before at great length, and your "ideal" is certainly not one > shared by many other users. > > -- > - Andrew Gray > andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
