[Foundation-l] checkuser log improvement

Thu Jan 12 19:47:38 UTC 2006

Hoi,
I have some idea why standards exist and ambiguity is not what results 
from proper localisation. When you see a date in the format that YOU are 
used to, there will not be any ambiguity whereas showing it in a 
particular date format can bring its own confusion.

As to there being no suggestion to making information public, I would 
hope not. When you only show information that is relevant in a context, 
you hide much data and consequently it will be less insecure. Given that 
this is not send using https, it is best to have as little go over a 
line as necessary.

Thanks,
   GerardM

Ray Saintonge wrote:
> You seem to be missing the point about why international standards 
> exist in the first place.  They protect against ambiguity.
>
> There was absolutely no suggestion in there that she wanted to make 
> any of this information public.
>
> Ec
>
> GerardM wrote:
>
>> Hoi,
>> It is therefore NOT truly localised, when it is truly localised it is
>> shown to you in a format that makes sense to the locale that can be
>> associated with you.  A date format can be shown differently within
>> one language depending on the locale. When you insist on an ISO format
>> you in essence discriminate against a language that uses another date
>> format if only because it uses different characters
>>
>> Then again showing the checkuser log indiscrimately is in my opinion
>> not such a great idea. Yes, it is apparantly a central log..
>>
>> Thanks,
>>    GerardM
>>
>>
>> On 1/12/06, Kelly Martin <kelly.lynn.martin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> On 1/12/06, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>   
>>>> The term is "localised" meaning that you want to see them according to
>>>> what is usual in your locale.
>>>>     
>>> No, I'd prefer that they be displayed in the ISO international date
>>> format so that they are NOT localized.  Right now they're in the local
>>> language of the project that checkuser is run from, and as I don't
>>> read Arabic or Polish, it makes reading the log occasionally
>>> confusing. 