In case of queries on datetime properties of type date, like e.g.
| ?Has datetime#MEDIAWIKI |
the result is in case of a German language usecase
09:30, 23. Mai. 2012
instead of
It would be nice to get date and time juxtaposed the other way around. I guess that this would be better not just for German language usecases
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A "wrong" setting in the user preferences on [[Special:Preferences]] section "date format" is not the cause of this since this printout statement does not consider the settings made there.
I think it is very sad to see that such an excellent idea turns out to be utterly useless. :(
SMW just calls the MW formatting function $wgContLang->timeanddate( timestamp, false, false). As I understand the documentation, this should provide the site language default format without any user preferences taken into account.
In other words, this is the German default date/time representation of MediaWiki. If something else should be the default, this needs to be changed in MediaWiki. Not sure if anything can be done here.
You are right. This comes directly from MW [1] and SMW just utilizes this. Thus closing this as RESOLVED INVALID.
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:MW_I18n_de_datetime.png