I was wondering more along the lines of a tag, like the geo, so that we can
format the date within the article, such as [[date:10-24-2005;us;md]] or
[[date:24-10-2005;iso;dm]] to tell the computer to display in the first case
the date October 24th, 2005 in the US format, with only the month and day,
thus "October 24" and in the second case in the ISO format, with only the
day and month, so "24 October" with the month names coming from the System
messages.
James
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Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Re: Date Formats
"Brion Vibber" <brion(a)pobox.com> wrote in
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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
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Phil
[[en:User:Phil Boswell]]
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