A minor gripe about standards, this one. 'Standard field' placeholders with a date type use 'Microsoft conventions' for formatting. Not being familiar with Microsoft programming, I had to hunt quite a bit for these 'conventions' ... In every other web application I've used where date formatting is specified - the most obvious examples being apache and php - the standard strftime formatting is used. Why reinvent the wheel here?
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I'd have to rank this as pretty minor. It would be neat if they could support both methods but why bother.
Agreed, it IS pretty minor, but a lot of these minor issues added up together become major. I'd warrant the pervasiveness of strftime() is at least an order of magnitude greater than that of the 'Microsoft conventions'.
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