Topic on Template talk:MediaWiki News

More info?

I think her or he means that dates need to be translatable. I also believe that they should be translatable. I was just too fatigued to report or ask for it.

I just decided that we would use a single format. If we translate them, we will need to create a common template, hmm.

We can also use #time for them: {{#time:d xg Y|1988-02-28|de}} - 28 Februars 1988. With {{CURRENTCONTENTLANGUAGE}} in third parameter.

Or perhaps #dateformat from Help:Magic words#Formatting is what we want here? E.g. {{#dateformat:2020-09-25}} becomes 2020-09-25 -- Would that work better, or break somehow in translated pages? I'm unclear on the distinction between that and Help:Extension:ParserFunctions##time...

I have a suspicion that it is using the interface language, not the content language.

Ah, right. I also just remembered that we use #time in Tech News every week. E.g. {{#time:<tvar|defaultformat>j xg</>|<tvar|date2>2020-09-30</>|<tvar|format_language_code>{{TRANSLATIONLANGUAGE}}</>}} so something like that is possibly what is needed here? (e.g. m:Tech/News/2020/39)

Hmm, yes, maybe that makes sense.