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Doc Bug #26096 Manual release date format
Submitted: 2003-11-03 12:39 UTC Modified: 2005-04-05 16:41 UTC
From: david at acz dot org Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Documentation problem
PHP Version: Irrelevant OS: Any
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2003-11-03 12:39 UTC] david at acz dot org 
Description:
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I realize this seems trivial, but I feel it is worth mentioning.

It would be very nice if the release date on the index page of the manual was in ISO format (YYYY-MM-DD) instead of the European centric DD-MM-YYYY format.  ISO format should be a good compromise for American and European users.  More importantly, it has the advantage of not being ambiguous when the day is twelve or less.

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 [2003-11-03 12:57 UTC] cheezy at php dot be 
You can also see the date in a more 'textier' ('Thu, 21 
Aug 2003') form on the top of every documentation page. 
This avoids all confusion.
 [2003-11-03 13:02 UTC] goba@php.net 
The 'textier' format is not available in downloadable versions. Also we have the same date format for all the languages, so having a common date format would be nice (only with numbers).
 [2003-11-03 22:08 UTC] david at acz dot org 
I should have indicated that I was referring to the downloadable documentation.  That is where it needs to be fixed.  My apologies for not being specific.
 [2004-01-26 14:27 UTC] nlopess@php.net 
What should we do to this?

Suggestions:
date -R (Mon, 26 Jan 2004 19:30:23 +0000)
date +%Y-%m-%d (2004-01-26)
...
date +%c (Mon Jan 26 19:34:07 2004) - I vote on this!!


Or simply leave as it is??
 [2004-01-26 14:49 UTC] goba@php.net 
The iso format is fine. As I have said, only numbers should be used in dates IMHO, since those will appear in the translated manuals too...
 [2004-01-26 14:51 UTC] sp@php.net 
As Goba said: Numbers are nice!!! 

I don't see why we should change it... 
Simply leave it as is and everything will be fine.
 [2004-01-26 14:52 UTC] nlopess@php.net 
So lets close it!
 [2005-02-01 21:29 UTC] david at acz dot org 
The date format is still ambiguous.
 [2005-04-05 16:41 UTC] vrana@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in the documentation's XML sources. Since the
online and downloadable versions of the documentation need some time
to get updated, we would like to ask you to be a bit patient.

Thank you for the report, and for helping us make our documentation better.
 
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