Re: [PHPiCalendar-DEV] 0.8.1

[Mike <mi...@la...>]

Jared wrote :

> I disagree. It's not stuck to the language but rather the country. The 
> US has the week start on Sunday. If someone in the US prefers their 
> calendars to be viewed in French or German, why should the week start 
> be on Monday? The calendar is still a US calendar.

This is your point of view. But remember: start week of the day doesn't 
affect the calendar results themselves! It's just for VIEWERS' 
convenience, just to fit people's mind. Just like translation or 24/12. 
So why stuck 24/12 in the language file and not week days ? 24h is not 
part of the US calendar and someone watching your calendar with "French 
view" would see 18h30: Japanese. Even if he lives in the US and is used 
to 12h time format. That's the same thing. Week days are just something 
everyone learn at school and are used to. So if you, Jared, come to 
France, you will be a little confused to see a french week view even 
with english day manes on it if you choosed the "US view". Because it's 
not convient for you.



> It is very common for a language to be stuck to a country as well, but 
> they aren't tied as tightly together and bilingual people might want 
> to choose.

For bilingual persons it's another deal. Not a big deal, because 
they're used to see both ways of displaying calendars. When french 
speaking Quebec people, and they're numerous, come to our websites 
hosted in France, they're used to see things the French way: 24, metric 
system, Euro, monday, etc... When they surf on US website they see 
thing differently. Quebec webmaster, will be able to have a custom 
mixed French/12h/sunday calendar with the custom.inc.php file I 
mentioned for the convenience of their Quebec visitors. It's still up 
to the webmaster!

That's a very little thing to change, and that would allow "Prefered 
view language" feature. Without that change, "Prefered view language" 
feature is a nonsense and is useless too.

Mike.