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Feature #6805

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add non-ambiguous ISO-ordered date/time formatting

Added by Albert Rosenfield about 14 years ago. Updated 11 months ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Normal
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Category:
-
Target version:
-
Start date:
2010-11-02
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0%

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Resolution:
Wont fix

Description

Hi

I'd like to see a non-ambiguous date/time format added to Redmine, which also respects standard ISO ordering.

ISO ordering is largest --> smallest component. In practice, that means year > month > day > hour > minute > second.

Non-ambiguous means that some indicator must be present to show what component is the day-of-month and what is the month-of-year.

I've attached a patch that fixes this in the easiest and most readily legible way possible for all nationalities.


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Updated by Felix Schäfer about 14 years ago

There's already %Y-%m-%d, not sure having the month name instead of number would be so much better/different, especially because I'd rather have the name rather than the number in more "human readable" formats, i.e. in stuff like %d %b %y.

Actions #2

Updated by Albert Rosenfield almost 14 years ago

Felix Schäfer: %Y-%m-%d is not a good enough format, since it is ambiguous for any dates where the day-of-month is 12 or less.

There is no way of telling from reading such a printed date, eg. 2011-01-12, if it is (in this example) january 12 or december 1.

Actions #3

Updated by Go MAEDA 11 months ago

  • Status changed from New to Closed
  • Resolution set to Wont fix

The YYYYY-MM-DD format is standardized in ISO 8601 and I do not think it is ambiguous.
https://www.iso.org/iso-8601-date-and-time-format.html

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