Last modified: 2005-12-09 15:13:43 UTC
The names of the options under date format in user preferences are only english (at least in swedish language projects). It would be nice if the options were translatable through the messages in the MediaWiki namespace. The "No preference" option should be translatable, and the different date formats should use the local names of months.
You can translate them by submitting patch against LanguageSv.php and allow everybody enjoy the translations. Because they are closely related to php code that forms those formats, they cannot be translate separately. And looking the code, that option should not have any effect on the actual date format as it's not read in the code.
Marking this as INVALID, there are some messages that should only be translatable through the language file and this is one of them, since your translation won't have any effect unless you change the corrisponding PHP code.
Is it actually necessary to have an array hardcoded in the language file? Can't we just run the actual output function to show how they're formatted? Note that since eg the month names are editable messages, a hardcoded list can be wrong with respect to actual output.
Now uses the actual timeanddate() to produce the list. The default option text is configurable as MediaWiki:Datedefault. Also I've restructured some of the date/time formatting stuff internally so not as much needs to be cut-n-pasted on most languages. There's a lot of cleanup still that could be done...
