From kde-i18n-doc  Mon Apr 30 14:58:11 2001
From: "Zumstein, Gregor" <gregor.zumstein () ssd ! ethz ! ch>
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 14:58:11 +0000
To: kde-i18n-doc
Subject: AW: New dates format in doc
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Is there a possibility to convert the date into a "native" format while
translating docbook/xml to html?
Sure, I can read the suggested format (and even write), but I would never do
that out of free will. I think this should also be part of translation and
i18n of the docs.

Gregor
>I finally converted the format of all dates in the documentation from
>the 
>European format (DD/MM/YYYY) to the standard ISO format (YYYY-MM-DD).
>
>	Old one:	31/12/2001
>	New one:	2001-12-31
>
>Rationale:
>- It is more respectuous of US users (who are used to MM/DD/YYYY)
>- such dates have the advantage of being easily sorted, the most
>significant 
>digits being at the left
>- it is international standard, and has been adopted by the other doc
>projects
>
>So please stick to this format for the dates in the future.
>
>Note: my scripts were only able to detect dates surrounded by <date>
>tag. If there was no such tag, then the date has not been converted.