Posted by AGw. (Usenet) on 11/01/07 01:21

On Oct 31, 9:16 pm, "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorp...@cs.tut.fi> wrote:

> Scripsit Bernhard Sturm:
>
> > Somebody whose handle has been snipped wrote:
> >
> > > P.S. Do you use browser-sniffing? That's a problem, too. I get
> > > different results (e.g. in date formats) when accessing the page on
> > > IE and on Lynx.
> >
> > No, no browser sniffing... Server side I use the LocaleIDs of the UA
> > via ASP (ServerVariables("HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE")) in order to format
> > date stamps. But I believe it is not correctly working.
>
> The very idea is incorrect. When your page is in German, the dates in its
> content should follow whatever conventions you regard as applicable to the
> German language.

What you're suggesting isn't correct, either; date format is not
simply determined by language. I believe that German and Italian
could be treated in this way, but I'm not sure about French, and it's
definitely not true for English. Spanish would also be a problem, if
I recall correctly, although it's not of course one of the languages
used by the particular site in question.


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AGw.

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