[Koha-devel] [Bug 169] dateformat not used anywhere

[Albert P. Calame]

RE: [Koha-devel] [Bug 169] dateformat not used anywhere A worthy nit to pick! Call it "European" and most will understand. The format you call "ISO", I've heard called "metric" but I like ISO better.


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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Anthony Youngman 
  To: 'koha-devel at lists.sourceforge.net' 
  Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 10:00 AM
  Subject: RE: [Koha-devel] [Bug 169] dateformat not used anywhere


  Just a minor nit. I've never actually come across dd/mm/yy called metric before. I have heard it referred to as "military" because apparently the US military use it, and I have heard it called European (that's what Pick calls it) because it's used in every European country I know of apart from that Scandinavian one I can't remember that uses ISO.

  And I would think "metric" definitely is the wrong name for it, because that is generally taken to mean "use a scale of 10 for measurement", which dates certainly don't!

  Cheers, 
  Wol 

  -----Original Message----- 
  From: bugzilla-daemon at wilbur.katipo.co.nz [mailto:bugzilla-daemon at wilbur.katipo.co.nz] 
  Sent: 26 March 2003 02:56 
  To: koha-devel at lists.sourceforge.net 
  Subject: [Koha-devel] [Bug 169] dateformat not used anywhere 



  http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=169 

  mwhansen at hmc.edu changed: 

             What    |Removed                     |Added 
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               Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED 
           Resolution|                            |FIXED 




  ------- Additional Comments From mwhansen at hmc.edu  2003-03-26 14:56 ------- 
  OK, here is the deal.  I created a module C4::Date which should be used by all 
  scripts that deal with dates. Right now, it accepts 3 date formats: 
       1: us - "mm/dd/yyyy" 
       2: metric - "dd/mm/yyyy" 
       3: iso - "yyyy-mm-dd" 

  The modules provides two functions: 
       1: display_date_format()  which will return a string like "dd/mm/yyyy" 
  depending on what dateformat is set to 
       2: format_date($date) which accepts a date as a string and will return it 
  in the proper format 

  Now, we need to update all the various scripts to use these functions so that 
  dates are in a consistent format throughout Koha. 




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