Tim Starling wrote:
I've written some PHP code to convert date formats from those typed to a user preference. A demonstration is now available at:
http://www.piclab.com/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Date_demonstration
There's also some information at:
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_dates
Any comments would be appreciated. There's just a few minor things left to do: for example I want to have an option in LocalSettings.php to disable it.
I haven't seen your code, but if you haven't already done so I highly recommend putting the guts of this into Language.php, so it doesn't clutter up the common code, and so other languages that want such an option can adapt it cleanly.
The user option should also override the sitewide setting in Language::date() ($wgAmericanDates true or false -- incidentally, although there were terrible flame wars a few months ago when it was suggested to change the date format used to display timestamps from American to British order, I've not heard a peep since the default got flipped during the server upgrade over a month ago.)
Can I please have whatever access is necessary to enable me to install this on test.wikipedia.org, and ultimately on the live server?
I'll see about setting up a login for you. (Erik probably should get one, too.)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)