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Tag: Date

  • Time, it needs time

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    Ralf
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    As I am writing this, bug reports from users are coming in on last night’s updates to Turba Addressbook. In Turba we first rolled out our new way of date handling and upgrading existing user-selected date formats in backends. The initial results were … mixed. Horde comes from the strftime era, a way of formatting…

  • Let’s have a date. Revised horde/date ideas

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    Ralf
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    It’s bad but not as bad as you think. The way we write dates is very different among cultures and technologies. Even countries of the same language family might have totally different notions where to put the year, where to put the month, where to put the day when writing down a date in numbers.…