[Design] Expando Date/Time fields

[Alec Flett]

Mimi Yin wrote:
>
> Yeah well there's a difference between English-only modules in the 
> final product and English-only modules for design experimentation._ _ 
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I totally agree with this and I think that it also applies to data 
input. While we don't want to just throw out i18n goals, I think there 
is real value both in providing language-specific display and input. If 
that starts with English, so be it. My hope would be that if we provide 
something that works very well in English, and fall back to something 
more generic for other locales, then there will be an incentive for 
translators to contribute back locale-specific input/display to improve 
parity with the English version of Chandler.

Put another way, if we're already going to force all languages to input 
a very fixed time format like "hh::mm am/pm" why not ALSO allow an 
extended syntax in English?

If we can find a way to make this system pluggable (and I think smart 
localizers will have to help us there) then we can allow people to 
drop-in their own localized engine to interpret "Hoy a las diez"

If anything, this will spur innovation for open-source date/time-entry 
parsing.

Alec