ECMAScript Intl API

[josh]

The ES internationalization APIs have partial implementations across browsers.

How can we leverage it when its available to provide better localized date formats?

/cc @dgraham @aroben @eanakashima @mislav

Resources

• http://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-402/1.0/
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Intl

[josh]

http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/working-with-intl--cms-21082

Intl.DateTimeFormat("en-US", {hour: "numeric"}).format(new Date())
// "1 PM"
Intl.DateTimeFormat("en-GB", {hour: "numeric"}).format(new Date())
// "13"

[dgraham]

We did this in #18, #19, and #22.

[josh]

I was going to say "wait, wait" but then you opened #24. 😀