[LRUG] How does Rails decide how to parse ambiguous dates?

[Matthew Rudy Jacobs]

>
>
> Because I have some fairly naive users, and getting them to use a computer
> at all can be a bit of a struggle.  Seriously - I have users whose tension
> levels go through the roof if even asked to sit at a keyboard.  Asking them
> to adapt to a new date format is just too much.
>
> I suggest to use names of months, instead of month numbers then

"20" + "September" + "2012"

is unambiguous, and user-friendly, in america and the uk.

You can write some code to convert the jquery date picker to fill these in
correctly.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.lrug.org/pipermail/chat-lrug.org/attachments/20110726/d3a5b49f/attachment-0003.html>