Posted by: db48x
« on: April 08, 2021, 09:47:20 PM »The author is in Britian, and the long date format in the en_GB locale is shorter than the long date format we use in the en_US locale; it doesn’t include the day name.
it'd be super easy to format datetimes to any arbitrary format to store in the DB or to display. same for the decimal separator issue. who knows why Steve doesn't do this.
Luckily they’re stored in the database in a locale–neutral way, which reduces the amount of problems people have.
I think that Steve has ended up in a local minimum. The implementation he’s got is good enough for his use–case, and working on it requires temporarily breaking things, or even just the tedium of finding every place that prints a date and changing it to use a different date format. Since that work has a cost but no benefit to Steve, it doesn’t get done. I even offered to do the tedious work for him once, but sadly he turned me down.