KIPS (Keep It Personal, Stupid!) [was: Re: International standard for date and time]

2007-06-19 Thread Nicola Larosa
> Jonas wrote: >> I remember to you that we are to interacting with computers, not with >> persons. James Bennett wrote: > The problem is that we're not really "interacting with computers". > We're using computers as proxies to help us interact with *people*, > and they should be first in our tho

Re: International standard for date and time

2007-06-19 Thread James Bennett
On 6/19/07, Jonas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's true that we are around circles, and I understand that you wann't > make that little change. It's more comfortable to have the framework > configured to your localization that: And it's already quite easy to do so, just by changing a couple sett

Re: International standard for date and time

2007-06-19 Thread Tom Tobin
On 6/19/07, Jonas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 18 jun, 23:17, Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm going to give this one more pass and then dropout. We're just going > > around in circles now. > It's true that we are around circles, and I understand that you wann't > make tha

Re: International standard for date and time

2007-06-19 Thread Jonas
On 18 jun, 23:17, Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm going to give this one more pass and then dropout. We're just going > around in circles now. It's true that we are around circles, and I understand that you wann't make that little change. It's more comfortable to have the frame

Re: International standard for date and time

2007-06-18 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
I'm going to give this one more pass and then dropout. We're just going around in circles now. On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 12:09 -0700, Jonas wrote: > On 18 jun, 00:04, Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 06:13 -0700, Jonas wrote: [...] > The problem is that you thi

Re: International standard for date and time

2007-06-18 Thread Jonas
On 18 jun, 00:04, Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 06:13 -0700, Jonas wrote: > > The current settings already are unambiguous *only for north > > americans*. > > I'm sorry, but this simply isn't true. > > - Current default DATE_FORMAT is "N j, Y" which,

Re: International standard for date and time

2007-06-17 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 06:13 -0700, Jonas wrote: > On 17 jun, 09:03, Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 00:54 -0700, Tai Lee wrote: > > > +1 - it's a simple default settings change. django is used by an > > > international community, so the defaults should be a

Re: International standard for date and time

2007-06-17 Thread Jonas
On 17 jun, 02:01, Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (also the patch should have been against > global_settings.py, not settings.py, but that's a minor thing). It's already corrected. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are sub

Re: International standard for date and time

2007-06-17 Thread Jonas
On 17 jun, 09:03, Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 00:54 -0700, Tai Lee wrote: > > +1 - it's a simple default settings change. django is used by an > > international community, so the defaults should be a format that is > > understood by everybody without any p

Re: International standard for date and time

2007-06-17 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 00:54 -0700, Tai Lee wrote: > +1 - it's a simple default settings change. django is used by an > international community, so the defaults should be a format that is > understood by everybody without any possibility of ambiguity. those > that prefer a different format (america

Re: International standard for date and time

2007-06-17 Thread Tai Lee
+1 - it's a simple default settings change. django is used by an international community, so the defaults should be a format that is understood by everybody without any possibility of ambiguity. those that prefer a different format (american, or abbreviated or full length month names etc) can chan

Re: International standard for date and time

2007-06-16 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 01:58 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Jun 16, 6:45 pm, "James Bennett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 6/16/07, Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > However all that is beside the point. The patch that Jonas has posted in > > > #4590 is just to

Re: International standard for date and time

2007-06-16 Thread orestis
Since this has come up, may I point you to this discussion over here: http://groups.google.com/group/Django-I18N/browse_thread/thread/3f5dfb2a9a10f904/54365cef61f62f21?lnk=st&q=&rnum=1#54365cef61f62f21 About ticket 4147: http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/4147 On Jun 17, 4:58 am, "[EMAIL PR

Re: International standard for date and time

2007-06-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Jun 16, 6:45 pm, "James Bennett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/16/07, Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > However all that is beside the point. The patch that Jonas has posted in > > #4590 is just to change the default settings. I'm not sure if that's > > worth doing or no

Re: International standard for date and time

2007-06-16 Thread James Bennett
On 6/16/07, Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However all that is beside the point. The patch that Jonas has posted in > #4590 is just to change the default settings. I'm not sure if that's > worth doing or not. Currently I'm somewhere between -0 and +0, since > it's completely withi

Re: International standard for date and time

2007-06-16 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 02:50 +0200, Julian 'Julik' Tarkhanov wrote: > > On Jun 17, 2007, at 2:46 AM, Jonas wrote: > > > > > > > On 17 jun, 01:14, "James Bennett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Where do you propose this be used? At the database level, your DB > > > will > > > store date/time v

Re: International standard for date and time

2007-06-16 Thread Julian 'Julik' Tarkhanov
On Jun 17, 2007, at 2:46 AM, Jonas wrote: > > On 17 jun, 01:14, "James Bennett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Where do you propose this be used? At the database level, your DB >> will >> store date/time values in whatever internal format it prefers. > Yes, I think that should be stored so at th

Re: International standard for date and time

2007-06-16 Thread Jonas
On 17 jun, 01:14, "James Bennett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Where do you propose this be used? At the database level, your DB will > store date/time values in whatever internal format it prefers. Yes, I think that should be stored so at the database level. > At the > level of input and output

Re: International standard for date and time

2007-06-16 Thread James Bennett
On 6/16/07, Jonas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think that Django should use an international standard date and time > format. Where do you propose this be used? At the database level, your DB will store date/time values in whatever internal format it prefers. At the level of input and output to

Re: International standard for date and time

2007-06-16 Thread Jonas
For if you want follow that standard I've added a patch: http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/4590 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to dja

International standard for date and time

2007-06-16 Thread Jonas
I think that Django should use an international standard date and time format. For more information: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/iso-date http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this mess