Sudhanwa, while I don't know about Indian language projects, I do know that on the English Wikipedia, we have (or atleast used to) a standard date format of YYYY-MM-DD. This is a reversed order which I assume would be relatively easy to follow since even machines understand it. Cheerio. On 09-Oct-2014 11:24 pm, "Sudhanwa Jogalekar" <sudhanwa....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > Apart from this, the date formats also needs to be standardised. > In India, we use dd/mm/yy as default. Whereas most editors outside > India (but editing Indian languages wiki) use mm/dd/yy format. This > cause huge confusions. eg. 09/10/14 is 09 Oct 14 or 10 Sep 14. A > simpler and better way could be to standardise the display on the > pages to dd-mmm-yyyy date formats and hh:mm:ss am/pm local timezone. > This could be same for any IP based editing but at the same time, > logged in users should have their own preferences in their settings. > > Not sure how much this is already implemented. If not done earlier, > could be taken up for implementation. > Regards > -Sudhanwa > > > On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Amir E. Aharoni > <amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Some Wikimedia projects in languages of India have Indian time defined as > > the default time zone. Some don't. For precise info see: > > http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=InitialiseSettings.php > > > > Search that file for wgLocaltimezone. You'll see that some projects have > > "Asia/Kolkata" as the timezone, for example guwiki (Gujarati Wikipedia), > but > > some don't appear at all, which means that their default timezone is > UTC. So > > for example if one goes to recent changes on the Assamese Wikisource, > then > > the times will show by default in IST, but on Assamese Wikipedia it will > be > > UTC. > > > > I guess that at least some of the projects will want to switch to the > > timezone of India. It's easy to do - a line for each project needs to be > > added for each site, but this should come in as requests from each site's > > community. > > > > If you have a few minutes, please check whether your favorite Wikimedia > uses > > the appropriate default time zone. If it doesn't, please bring this up > for > > community discussion, and if the community agrees, please request to > change > > it in Bugzilla (or just submit a patch directly to Gerrit). > > > > If you need any technical explanation (for example, if you have no idea > how > > to work with Bugzilla and Gerrit), I am available for questions. > > > > Thank you! > > > > -- > > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > > “We're living in pieces, > > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > > > > > -- > > ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! > web: www.sudhanwa.com blog: www.sudhanwa.in > Twitter: sudhanwa Check on FB, Linkedin for more. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >
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