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.com(a)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.aharoni(a)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!
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