I was wondering more along the lines of a tag, like the geo, so that we can format the date within the article, such as [[date:10-24-2005;us;md]] or [[date:24-10-2005;iso;dm]] to tell the computer to display in the first case the date October 24th, 2005 in the US format, with only the month and day, thus "October 24" and in the second case in the ISO format, with only the day and month, so "24 October" with the month names coming from the System messages.
James
-----Original Message----- From: wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Phil Boswell Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 3:09 PM To: wikipedia-l@wikipedia.org Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Re: Date Formats
"Brion Vibber" brion@pobox.com wrote in message news:426CC670.6050103@pobox.com...
James R. Johnson wrote:
I was wondering if it were possible to have a user accountsetting where I set the date to either mm-dd-yyyy or dd/mm/yyyy, and the dates within articles show up that way across the wiki. Some prefer one way, others prefer the other way.
Go to your preferences, click the "Date format" tab, and select your preferred format.
Always bearing in mind that this will only work for *linked* dates.
See here for details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_%28dates_and_numbers% 29#Dates
HTH HAND