Talk:News
Can't we use dates like 2005-11-02? They make more sense. :-) Also, today is 2005-11-02 in my time zone but 2005-11-01 in the server's. What do we do about that? --Jonathan 19:11, 1 November 2005 (CST)
Use GMT? Ill format the dates like that, when we decide if were gonna use GMT or not i'll change that around to ;). EDIT: since the ~~~~ thing is in CST, why dont we use that?
TiTnAsS 22:21, 1 November 2005 (CST)
Also, how come im the only one whos added any news? O_O lol
TiTnAsS 22:32, 1 November 2005 (CST)
(any guidelines on responding to old messages? I've seen another wiki use nested bullet lists)
- That's a good idea. We should probably sign each level of nesting, eh? --Lucifer 02:29, 2 November 2005 (CST)
At least the zone used should be clear, and preferably consistent and relatively widely-known (UTC/GMT?). No, this line isn't meant to be specific to dates people put on pages.
--Jonathan 19:58, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
- Yeah, I was thinking dates should include a zone and offset, so for example I'd mark my own entires with CST (-6). (I think it's -6 here, I could be mistaken). Americans and anyone else who knows can see I'm in central time and do the math if they'd like, everyone else can fall back to the offset given and work off UTC with it. I definitely think the local time zone for who posts the news item is more important than putting a UTC timestamp on it.
Otherwise, if anyone knows if there's a macro or something to insert the date, that should probably be used. Then we can let mediawiki figure it out. --Lucifer 02:29, 2 November 2005 (CST)
I'm really surprised there is no simple macro for dates that renders them according to the reader's taste... --Luke-Jr 12:43, 2 November 2005 (CST)
Does anybody feel like coding one? It should look like ¿¡ISO 8601 date here!?, where the ¿¡!? are replaced with more suitable opening and closing tags. --Jonathan 13:50, 2 November 2005 (CST)
Uhh if i can do it in Python with what i've already learned, luci can judge if ive learned enough, i'll give it a shot..
TiTnAsS 18:16, 2 November 2005 (CST)
