mhonarc-ressources.tt2 uses inconsistent date formats

[dpc22]

Expected Behavior

I would like archived.pl / mhoarc to use European date formats (%d/%m/%Y).

Alternatively ISO 8601 date formats (%Y-%m-%d) which have the advantage of being unambiguous.

Current Behavior

Sympa mostly uses American middle endian date formats (%m/%d/%Y).

However the "Chronological" tab uses %y/%m/%d to start each new day.

Possible Solution

My existing workaround is a custom mhonarc-ressources.tt2 file.

Would it be possible to add a configuration option which is referenced in the default file instead?

Context

My users do not normally use American middle endian date formats.

07/01/2019 would normally be read as 7th January 2019 rather than 1st July 2019.

[ikedas]

Hi @dpc22,

Sympa mostly uses American middle endian date formats (%m/%d/%Y).

Where is it used? Could you show screen shot?

[dpc22]

https://listes.renater.fr/sympa/arc/sympa-developpers/2019-07/ includes:

Re: [sympa-developpers] Sympa web site updated IKEDA Soji, 07/05/2019

That message was sent on 5th July 2019. In addition:

https://listes.renater.fr/sympa/arc/sympa-developpers/2019-07/mail1.html contains:

19/07/05
...
19/07/06
...
19/07/07

which are year/month/day

[ikedas]

Duplicate of #115.

You may correct English translation here (sign-in is needed to correct it).

[dpc22]

(Sorry if this reopens the ticket: it seemed sensible to attach the following text to the original ticket),

The existing translation is fine for en_US.

It looks like I would need a dedicated en_GB locale for the differences between American and British English. Maintaining my own mhonarc-ressources.tt2 might be the fastest/simplest workaround given that this is the only issue that I have run into to date.

However thanks for pointing out that the localisation stuff can also transform date strings. That hadn't occurred to me.