[Design] Expando Date/Time fields

[Philippe Bossut]

+1 (just adding my voice to the chorus of people saying it's a good 
idea... :) )

FWIW, Zimbra is  doing a pretty good job at parsing dates (and other 
things) in free form emails and that's one of their staring features. 
Works only in English though AFAIK.

Agree with Alec that if we do a good job at making the architecture 
modular, we can wet the appetite of international devs to provide 
localized algorithms. In the short term though, just providing the terse 
output is already a great step in the right direction.

Cheers,
- Philippe

Mimi Yin wrote:

> Actually if you think about it, providing a flexible, modular  
> framework that allows for culture-specific designs is the most  
> "internationalizable" thing any piece of software can provide.
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> On Jan 11, 2006, at 3:08 PM, Alec Flett wrote:
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>> Mimi Yin wrote:
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>>>
>>> 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
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