Dear World,
We apologize for being so US-centric and using Month-Day-Year everywhere on the site. It is a bit archaic and doesn’t make much sense to the rest of you. So, we now let you pick Day-Month-Year (account preference).
Please stop sending angry letters starting like: “the REST of the world, which does things in a reasonable fashion…” and which continue to point out that, given that humans have ten digits, the kilometer makes more sense than than the mile, milk shouldn’t come in quarts, &c. Whatever.
With love,
The BillMonks
ps. Time zones are coming soon, but will make more sense once you can report things with hour-level granularity. Gotta say, we’re not loving all the wacky regional exceptions to daylight savings.
July 19, 2006 at 11:30 pm |
I’d recommend JodaTime, but since you’re not using Java, I’ve got nothing for you
July 20, 2006 at 12:41 pm |
Hurray for the step towards internationalisation ! How long do you think until you implement other languages ?
August 28, 2006 at 11:36 am |
By the way if you need a french translator I’d gladly help
September 8, 2006 at 1:20 am |
Hi Billmonk! Would it be possible to add yyyy-mm-dd? It’s the ISO standard and is the most internationally unambiguous format.
September 8, 2006 at 3:22 am |
Sure thing! I’ll post again when it’s up.
September 8, 2006 at 8:18 pm |
OK, we now support yyyy-mm-dd. Thanks for the suggestion!
September 18, 2006 at 1:22 pm |
Yay! YYYY-MM-DD support!
Well, kind of anyway…
This is really pedantic, but how about using the a hypen (-) as the separator instead of a slash (/) for YYYY-MM-DD? Yes I know, this is really, really picky but then that really would conform to the ISO standard!
Thanks!
October 3, 2006 at 12:10 am |
The free Unix/Linux localtime library handles all the strange daylight savings
times. It’s part of the standard C library these days, and the timezone database comes with your system. Try “man tzset” and “man tzfile” for
more info. It works from Perl and other languages, too.