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Another advantage to outputting 8601 dates is it's easy to mechanically parse - you can probably find some JS to rewrite the 8601 dates coming from the server i
by jamie_ca 6y ago
Another advantage to outputting 8601 dates is it's easy to mechanically parse - you can probably find some JS to rewrite the 8601 dates coming from the server into whatever the user's current locale is. Bonus points: if your timestamps are UTC, the frontend reformatting can even take timezones into account (such that an American and an Australian could correctly see different dates for the same timestamp).
- davidbanham 6y agoI did try rewriting dates into a user's locale as specified by the browser. The trouble there is that a lot of people seem to have that set to en-US rather than en-AU. So I still got a bunch of people unhappy that the dates were American!