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 Posted - 11 July 2002 : 18:01:13
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I read most of forums/posts related to UK dateformat, and other internatinal dateformat discussions of the past, using LCID for locale dateformat selection, etc....
I have some questions -
(1) Currently Snitz dateformat setting can be done in Admin Options by setting Server Date/Time, including various US and UK/International dateformats, and synchronizing locale date/time with server datetime by adjusting time difference... But it appears that a forum dateformat is one format selection and mixed dateformats cannot exisit
(2) Events Calender is not fully an integrated MODS to a forum and it has its own dateformat definition and have to apply similar dateformat modification to it, if to use in international enviornment or to be in synch with core Forum datetime format.
Most of current approaches and code modifications discussed are either using US vs UK/Europe locale format in either or approach.
I realize that there were some detail discussions on various approaches to how to handle dateformat in V4.x but I kind of missed a point where it basically ended up in terms of implementation.
Is there be a multiple dateformat selection option for Forum? Considered in next version or near future release? What I am wondering is whether there would be an option for selecting,
let's say
US format for English_US
UK format for British English/European item
Japanese format for Japanese, etc.
I saw some dateformat modification for DE german added by using mm.dd.yy type expression using "." separator, which can be replaced by "Month", "Day", "Year" characters in Japanese, for example.... as an approach..
Am asking these general questinos, since I am sensing that it would require some combination of locale language LCID selection and dateformat output for selection to handle multilingual forum....
Are there some codes exist to handle something like
if LCID=1033, then go to Dateformat US
if LCID=1041, then go to Dateformat JA
if LCID=1031, then go to Dateformat DE,
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else
go to LCID=1033
type codes in handling these?
Thanks in advance...
Taku 
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Posted - 11 July 2002 : 18:48:31
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I've already written the necessary code to support all date-time formats in any language. v4b04 will include them if DevTeam accepts them. There are different levels of operation ranging from server based ASP, ASP based string handling up to full client side javascript ones. This way I thing any problem caused by server locale settings will be resolved.
That extra code eats some processing time on the other hand...
There is a new (fixed) table called LCID which keeps the settings from the NLS Web ( http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/nlsweb/default.asp ). If you "install" one language, then you will be able to set date, time, etc formats for that language (hopefully).
The base code changes (changes to the existing forum code) are pending of course. v3.4 must come out first...
Think Pink
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Posted - 11 July 2002 : 23:09:58
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Thanks for your comments on this. That's very encouraging.
Well, at the same time, it appears that I need to play around to figure out how to deploy at least a mixed dateformat with US and other...while waiting for a full deployment.... It appears that you have to do a lot of nested coding of select or case or set LCID etc. mapped with routinges to handle various languagues....Guess it's necessary evil - performance vs built-in complexity.... I will continue my trial and error testing here ...
I am familiar with that LCID listing (NT/Win2000/XP) and I realized that there is a way to set Locale language/time format selection ASP codes based on LCID selection... (from MDSN Library)... and for international locale dateformat installation...
Thanks.
Taku 
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