[Zope-CMF] DateTime support for Norwegian dateformat? (offtopic)

[seb bacon]

On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 11:40, jkpikifi wrote:
> Sorry this is offtopic, but here goes anyway:
> 
> My proposed fix for this was that when '.' is the delimiter, the
> default order would be dd.mm.yyyy but when '/' is the delimiter, the
> order would be mm/dd/yyyy.  Someone more familiar with global date
> formats perhaps can tell whether this is a sensible approach - or is
> there a habit of using mm.dd somewhere on the globe?  An older format
> (not that much used anymore) for dates in Finland is dd/m but many
> places with more people I think use m/dd, so defaulting to m/dd seems
> like a reasonable thing.

dd/mm is the standard in the UK.

IMO the ISO 8605 format (YYYY-MM-DD) is the only sensible default:

 - it is an international standard
 - it's unambigious (hmm, ok, *less* ambiguous)
 - it sorts nicely as a string

DateTime knows how to display and parse in this format.

seb

> I think I submitted the code to the bug collector for this change.
> 
> --- In zopeCMF@y..., Joachim Schmitz <js@a...> wrote:
> > but beware of a bug-feature.
> > 
> > 
> > DateTime('13.1.2001') --> results correctly to 13-Jan-2001
> > but
> > DateTime('12.1.2001') --> results to 1-Dec-2001
> > 
> > and so do all others where the daydigits result in a valid month !!!!!
> > 
> > 
> > --On Donnerstag, Dezember 20, 2001 14:13:59 -0500 Andreas Jung 
> > <andreas@z...> wrote:
> > 
> > > Zopes DateTime objects should be able to parse formats
> > > like 'dd.mm.yy' and 'dd.mm.YYYY' (tested and working
> > > with Zope 2.5 (and earlier version)).
> 
> 
> 
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