Steve Bennett wrote:
Which auto date formatting do you mean, btw? I see these constant references to it when people link stuff like [[August 8]], but we don't seem to have any settings that return a nice result like "8th of August", which is what my personal preference would be...
That's precisely what it's for, although ordinal dates aren't currently an option. Go to preferences->date&time. For year-less dates, it'll auto-convert between [[October 28]] and [[28 October]], and for year-havin' dates it'll auto-convert between any of these 5: [[October 28]], [[1940]] [[28 October]] [[1940]] [[1940]] [[October 28]] [[1940]]-[[10-28]] [[1940-10-28]]
The two most common seem to be the top two, with Americans preferring the first and many Europeans preferring the second. I suppose another format that was the same as the 2nd but with ordinals would please some folks as well, but perhaps it's somewhat harder to implement.
-Mark