[PATCH] date representation: use ISO8601 rather than a specific locale

[Mads Kiilerich]

On 02/26/2015 10:58 PM, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 10:51 PM, Thomas De Schampheleire
> <patrickdepinguin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> # HG changeset patch
>> # User Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire at gmail.com>
>> # Date 1424987487 -3600
>> #      Thu Feb 26 22:51:27 2015 +0100
>> # Node ID d80090d1053468f6b84eb8ef41c62446995ddb73
>> # Parent  c7f97c237dacbed8770d4aacf20feb8175ee8d99
>> date representation: use ISO8601 rather than a specific locale
>>
>> Dates, in particular in technical systems like Kallithea, are
>> better shown in a clear concise format like ISO8601 (YYYY-MM-DD)
>> than in a verbose format like 'Thu, Feb 26 2015'.
>>
>> This commit changes all dates to ISO8601.
>>
>> ---
>> If desired, we could create two functions: one that returns ISO format and
>> another for the locale format. Depending on the usage, one or the other is
>> shown. I'm not very fond of that though, it looks inconsistent.
>>
>> diff --git a/kallithea/lib/helpers.py b/kallithea/lib/helpers.py
>> --- a/kallithea/lib/helpers.py
>> +++ b/kallithea/lib/helpers.py
>> @@ -469,7 +469,7 @@
>>
>>   def fmt_date(date):
>>       if date:
>> -        _fmt = u"%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S".encode('utf8')
>> +        _fmt = u"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S".encode('utf8')
>>           return date.strftime(_fmt).decode('utf8')
>>
>>       return ""
> In some way related: certain dates in Kallithea are shown as an age '5
> days ago' rather than an expanded date.
>
> What is the strategy: when should we use what? Or should we always
> show the age with the date as tooltip?

The current heuristics seems ok to me.

/Mads