Erik Moeller erik_moeller@gmx.de writes:
I was not referring to the standard date format, but to information like "before 300" or "early 19th century", which was translated from German into English.
Yes, but the other way around: you use the ISO format as the English ('en') format and that's at least misleading.
Also we should stay away from the dates in different formats again and again. Using YYYY-MM-DD and nothing else in the template is good enough. MySQL or glibc can convert the dates to the format the user prefers.