[Foundation-l] checkuser log improvement

[Ray Saintonge]

You seem to be missing the point about why international standards exist 
in the first place.  They protect against ambiguity.

There was absolutely no suggestion in there that she wanted to make any 
of this information public.

Ec

GerardM wrote:

>Hoi,
>It is therefore NOT truly localised, when it is truly localised it is
>shown to you in a format that makes sense to the locale that can be
>associated with you.  A date format can be shown differently within
>one language depending on the locale. When you insist on an ISO format
>you in essence discriminate against a language that uses another date
>format if only because it uses different characters
>
>Then again showing the checkuser log indiscrimately is in my opinion
>not such a great idea. Yes, it is apparantly a central log..
>
>Thanks,
>    GerardM
>
>
>On 1/12/06, Kelly Martin <kelly.lynn.martin at gmail.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>On 1/12/06, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>The term is "localised" meaning that you want to see them according to
>>>what is usual in your locale.
>>>      
>>>
>>No, I'd prefer that they be displayed in the ISO international date
>>format so that they are NOT localized.  Right now they're in the local
>>language of the project that checkuser is run from, and as I don't
>>read Arabic or Polish, it makes reading the log occasionally
>>confusing.
>>