On 27 Feb 2003 at 14:08, Sean Barrett wrote:
Some discussion has occured in [[Wikipedia talk:Manual
of Style (dates
and numbers)]] about the formats of dates; i.e., whether or not
[[January 2]], [[2003]] is American-Imperialist. (My feeling: yes,
but that's not the only reason I like it.)
A suggestion was made to allow date strings to be wrapped in <date> -
</date> tags which the Wikipediware will parse and render properly. I
have written a Perl routine to not only do this, but also return
either the American or the European format, based on a flag set in
each user's preferences.
Questions:
How would I go about adding this routine to the Wikipediware?
Should I even bother adding this routine to the Wikipediware?
Does anyone care?
I have no time to follow the discussion you are talking about, but...
While making date syntax more general please remember
that there are other [[calendar]]s in usage around the world nowadays,
not only Western invention (ie. [[Gregorian calendar]])
The number of [[Islamic calendar]] + [[Chinese calendar]] calendar users
is quite impressive.
Regards
Youandme