[wp-hackers] Re: Date and time logic

[José Fontainhas]

Ticket and patch submitted: http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/8499
> I've noticed that on some areas of the dashboard, the dates shown are 
> formatted according to the translation file (<locale>.mo, if it 
> exists). This is true (at least) on the Pages' and Posts' lists.
>
> My question is if it wouldn't make more sense to read the format from 
> Settings > General > Date Format since right now it can get a bit 
> confusing for a user having defined a format of, say "Y-m-d" but seing 
> a format of "Y\d\m" because the .mo says so. This is particularly 
> pertinent to MU where different users can choose different date and 
> time formats,  but  applies to wp.org, mu.org and wp.com.
>
> Jose