Date Formats

[Roedy Green]

I have written a rant on why you should not let Java localise
date/time formats for you. Instead you should use ISO-8601.

See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/calendar.html#ISO

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Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
http://mindprod.com
Capitalism has spurred the competition that makes CPUs faster and
faster each year, but the focus on money makes software manufacturers
do some peculiar things like deliberately leaving bugs and deficiencies
in the software so they can soak the customers for upgrades later.
Whether software is easy to use, or never loses data, when the company
has a near monopoly, is almost irrelevant to profits, and therefore
ignored. The manufacturer focuses on cheap gimicks like dancing paper
clips to dazzle naive first-time buyers. The needs of existing
experienced users are almost irrelevant. I see software rental as the
best remedy.

 

[Arne Vajhøj]

I have written a rant on why you should not let Java localise
date/time formats for you. Instead you should use ISO-8601.

See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/calendar.html#ISO

May I suggest that you create http://mindprod.com/jgloss/usability.html
where you explain that "programmers designing UI's according to
programming logic and end users just having to learn to do it the
right computer way instead of the way the have usually done it"
went out of fashion many many years ago.

Arne