[Sigia-l] display of date in multilanguage portal

[Eric Reiss]

Shawn Smith wrote:
Should the date in the user's account history or email inbox,
for example, be presented as MM/DD/YYYY, DD/MM/YYYY or DD.MM.YYYY,
depending on the selected language? 


We follow the Don't Make Me Think philosophy and simply write out the
name of the month whenever possible. But we also try to keep language
and formatting language-specific if possible:

March 1, 2003 or 1 March 2003(US/UK)
1. marts 2003 (Denmark)
1. märz 2003 (Germany)

Otherwise, you end up with

01/03/03
or
03/01/03

At best, using numbers alone is ambiguous the first 12 days of any
month and requires too much logical thinking the rest of the month...

Best,
Eric

e-reiss.com
copenhagen, denmark