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Savane upgraded to 1.2

Item posted by Sylvain Beucler <Beuc> on Sun 16 Oct 2005 03:35:02 PM UTC.

Dates for news look too American (posted by Pavel Roskin, Wed 19 Oct 2005 09:28:38 PM UTC)

The dates for news items are shown in format "Sun 10/16/05".
Although Savannah is in English, it's not for Americans only. To make the date format more readable, month should be written as a word, and the year should be written with all 4 digits to make it clear that it's a year, not anything else. I don't think the week day is relevant at all. So, I would like to see "October 16, 2005" instead.

RE: Dates for news look too American (posted by David Robillard, Mon 24 Oct 2005 04:02:45 AM UTC)

The international standard for date format (ISO 8601) is YYYY/MM/DD, ie 2005/10/19. Putting the year first avoids the month/day ambiguity (caused by the insane american middle-endian format).

RE: Dates for news look too American (posted by Tolga Dalman, Tue 25 Oct 2005 02:00:03 PM UTC)

> The international standard for date format (ISO 8601) is
> YYYY/MM/DD, ie 2005/10/19.

well, actually, it isn't. ISO 8601 specifies no separators or none at all. Thus, the complete date of the above given example would be 2005-10-19, or 20051019. Wikipedia gives a pretty good explaination about that ISO standard.

RE: Dates for news look too American (posted by Pellegrini Yvan, Sun 30 Oct 2005 07:44:06 AM UTC)

yes, but actually the important thing is the specified order, not the separators !