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I was bored so I bothered using my edit privileges to change the release status of my old JouleOS..
when specifying the release date, I had some problems..the first paragraph uses the normal American type date system (year/day/month) but for the actual projects listing, it is different..it is year/??/?? there is no day that is past 12, so I can't tell what format to use..

Really, I think you should use a more understandable format, like May 5, 2007 rather than 2007/5/5 or 5/5/2007..

I used year/month/day.

I have no idea if it was the best way, but I know that I did it to represent the priority of year/month/day in that sequence. As I figured it was more important to know the year and month than the day.

Day/Month/Year is the most logical to me, it's left-to-right for a start... All you Americans do everything backwards!

lol..That's the format I use! and I'm American...so I guess some weird country uses it..(Australia?)

no thats not really logical -- thats backwards day/month/year is right to left not left to right (so i guess it would be natural for some language groups)
that would be like writing 4 thousand 2 hundred and eighty-seven as: 7824

year (not day) is the most-significant, so year/month/day sorts correctly, while day/month/year does not -- that said, the default in US is neither -- its month/day/year

It's the 6th of June 2007. Left to right.

The format is clearly causing confusion, Why not just "spell it out"..

As it's clear the format isn't the same in every location.. So instead of adapting to a countries standard, Find a better way.

jhawthorn is pretty good with templates. He might have a more automated solution that fits in with the capabilities with templates. Give him a day or two to read the messages.

Unless anyone else wants to give it a try. There is a rollback feature for the wiki pages.

Sorry, I read everything yesterday but was too busy to reply. IMO the best way to do this with MediaWiki's #time parser function. Unfortunately, the MediaWiki version we have does not support parser functions IIRC. However, we can still use the following arguments with numerical values
|LastReleaseMonth
|LastReleaseDay
|LastReleaseYear
and use a series of if statements to print the month. I worry that this will be a performance hit for rendering the page. Template:If is already somewhat of a kludge. With 12 of them per entry, and caching of the page only in effect for anonymous viewers, it seems like a poor solution. Or maybe I have spent too much time today programming for my 486 to be realistic about this.

I'll do this to the template tomorrow, it will probably be alright.

It's D/M/Y here in AU.. Y/M/D is good for sorting large directories when you organise by name.