Last modified: 2006-02-02 15:07:46 UTC
While viewing the Dutch page on UTC, I encountered an inconsistency in some date/time templates. The CURRENTDAY template returns the day of the month. When before the 10th, only 1 digit is returned. The CURRENTMONTH template returns the month of the year (01-12), from January through September a leading zero is added and returned are always 2 digits. When used for displaying this should normally be no problem. On the mentioned page however, these templates (along with a few others) are used to display the current date/time in UTC format. However, the W3C guidelines dictate that day-of-month is always represented in 2 digits - and the CURRENTDAY template doesn't provide that. Maybe it would be an idea to create new templates CURRENTDAY_DD and CURRENTMONTH_MM which always return two digits? The existing CURRENTMONTH template might be modified to behave consistently with the existing CURRENTDAY template.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 2522 ***
Please change {{CURRENTDAY}} to always display the two-digit day of month; otherwise we cannot construct the ISO 8601 international standard date format. Or else please create a new variable that always displays two digits, naming it, e.g., {{CURRENTDAY2}}. Since Wikipedia is intended for a worldwide audience, Wikipedia should only be using the ISO 8601 international standard date and time format for the four-tilde signature string and logged-out skin, instead of arbitrary, mixed-up, colloquial formats. Please implement this greatly needed change. Thanks.
