On 30/04/05, James R. Johnson modean52@comcast.net wrote:
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.
I don't understand - why would you want to force a particular format in this way, and if you did, what would be wrong with just writing it out yourself? Surely the aim is to have dates, however entered, appear uniformly in the format chosen by the user *reading* the page. This is exactly what Tim's DateFormatter does, but rather than having to specifically tag it as a date, you just have to make the parts of the date into links. (Of course, this has disadvantages - such as a lot of fairly irrelevant links into pages to do with dates - but it makes it very easy to use)