I say this should be implemented, with changes -- I think the main suggestion of [year--named month--day] for dates is great*, and I'd like to see it implemented.
I think the side suggestion of letting people choose their own date order is a terrible idea, though; at least for dates that use all numbers. That means 2012-06-07 could mean 6th of July on some journals, but 7th of June for others, if date format depended on what that journal or community owner preferred.
While logged-in DW users would be able to override that with their own date settings, having contradictory usage on journals and comments would be very confusing for people who don't have a DW account, or who aren't logged in, because different journals & communities would be using different systems.
*ETA: On second thoughts, would this be anglo-centric? Considering month names are different in different languages, is it easier for global users to just use numbers?
Would allowing people to set month-names in languages other than english be difficult to do? What about Greek or Russian? Could existing services for global users be easily extended to cover this?
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I think the side suggestion of letting people choose their own date order is a terrible idea, though; at least for dates that use all numbers. That means 2012-06-07 could mean 6th of July on some journals, but 7th of June for others, if date format depended on what that journal or community owner preferred.
While logged-in DW users would be able to override that with their own date settings, having contradictory usage on journals and comments would be very confusing for people who don't have a DW account, or who aren't logged in, because different journals & communities would be using different systems.
*ETA: On second thoughts, would this be anglo-centric? Considering month names are different in different languages, is it easier for global users to just use numbers?
Would allowing people to set month-names in languages other than english be difficult to do? What about Greek or Russian? Could existing services for global users be easily extended to cover this?