"Last updated" information for statistics

[DrewE]

The date for "last updated" for the statistics looks kind of strange.

[[Template:CPDL statistics|(''Updated {{LOCALYEAR}} {{LOCALMONTHNAME}} {{LOCALDAY}}, {{LOCALTIME}}'')]]

Updated 2008 November 1, 12:34

Oughtn't it follow a more usual convention, say 1 November 2008, 12:34? I realize that date formats are highly variable around the world, but as far as I know numerical-year monthname numerical-day-of-month isn't common anywhere.

[carlos]

Yes, thanks for noticing that, see if you like it now.

[DrewE]

That looks a lot better to me. Thanks.

[CHGiffen]

While it's not really important to me, I do note that in the "Date and time" section "My preferences" at the CPDL ChoralWiki, the fourth radio button option reads: 16:12, 2001 January 15. My assumption is that the yyyy month dd format is common enough to have been a choice. And I apologise if my choice of this format when I set up the automatic updating of Template:CPDL statistics offended anyone.

Chuck

[carlos]

Hey Chuck, sorry if you had formatted it on purpose! I thought it wasn't intentional since you don't use this date formatting anywere else that I can remember.

[CHGiffen]

Well, I did indeed select the yyyy month dd format, although perhaps I wasn't thinking about its ramifications or unpleasantness for some users. I suppose I was guided by the yyyy-mm-dd format that we use elsewhere and simply removed the hyphens and replace mm with month. I'm quite able to live with the dd month yyyy format that Carlos changed it to. FYI, originally, Raf set the old newcategories.php form to output the month dd, yyyy format.

Chuck

[carlos]

Since we're on this topic... I noticed that we have quite a number of different date formats on the site. Some are more "international" as "yyyy-mm-dd" and "dd Month yyyy" (found on composer pages), and some are more common in the U.S., such as the dates on the Main Page and on the Scores-of-the-Month pages (in the format "Month dd, yyyy"). It would be great if we could uniformize these formats throughout the site.