Req #66157 [Asn]: Reduce number of date formats from 9 to 1

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=66157&edit=1 ID: 66157 User updated by: t at tcx dot de Reported by: t at tcx dot de Summary: Reduce number of date formats from 9 to 1 Status: Assigned Type: Feature/Change Request Package: Website problem PHP Version: Irrelevant Assigned To: levim Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Y-m-d is already the most used format on php.net when looking at the links provided on creation of this bug. Just convert the others to Y-m-d and you are done. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2014-03-14 15:18:21] t at tcx dot de "Human readable dates will be displayed as 'd M Y'. Datetimes intended for tools will use RFC 3339 (W3C is the same thing). Dates intended for tools (no timestamp information) will use 'Y-m-d'." That again is three formats. On a website all displayed date information can be read by humans. Y-m-d is perfectly readable by humans - at least me and probably the designers of https://www.python.org/ thought so. Y-m-d is defined in ISO 8601 and it is the most compact format of those that are not ambiguous. Straight forward. No RFCs with their handful of formats, no W3C (they themselves don't use it strictly on their site), just one ISO. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2014-03-14 15:07:59] levim@php.net Human readable dates will be displayed as 'd M Y'. Datetimes intended for tools will use RFC 3339 (W3C is the same thing). Dates intended for tools (no timestamp information) will use 'Y-m-d'. I have committed some changes already and plan to work on this today during stretches where my code is compiling. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2014-03-04 09:44:21] t at tcx dot de http://www.python.org/ now uses Y-m-d. In Gmail web interface I also see that more of my reply emails write something like: "2014-03-04 2:58 GMT+01:00 Name <name@example.org>:" (Note, they miss the leading 0 for one digit hours and use GMT which is wrong, correct is UTC). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2014-03-04 04:27:22] levim@php.net This many date formats in use bothers me as well. I'll look into pruning them a bit. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-11-23 18:10:16] bjori@php.net (It thinks it is spam becomes there are so many links :)) Thanks for the report, you raise an excellent point! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=66157 -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=66157&edit=1