[Wikipedia-l] Re: Date Formats

[Phil Boswell]

"Brion Vibber" <brion at pobox.com> wrote in 
message news:426CC670.6050103 at pobox.com...
> James R. Johnson wrote:
> >             I was wondering if it were possible to have a user account
> > setting where I set the date to either mm-dd-yyyy or dd/mm/yyyy, and the
> > dates within articles show up that way across the wiki.  Some prefer one
> > way, others prefer the other way.
> Go to your preferences, click the "Date format" tab, and select your
> preferred format.

Always bearing in mind that this will only work for *linked* dates.

See here for details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_%28dates_and_numbers%29#Dates

HTH HAND
-- 
Phil
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