User:JimWae/dates

Every Canadian newspaper at http://digital.vancouversun.com/epaper/viewer.aspx uses MMMM dD, YYYY format. What basis is there for the suggestion that International format (dD MMMM YYYY) be used for ALL new Canadian articles? For me (and for many Canadian newspaper readers) reading such an article would be like reading a British article about Canada.

Besides that, my chosen format is YYYY-MMM-DD, which is also widely used in Canada. It appears that all proposals would BANISH that previously-supported format from wikipedia.

I think there must be a way to make autoformatting work. There could be a header in each article (initially based on categories) that the software could read to set formatting for readers who have not yet set their preference. If the header is not there (AND the user has not set preferences), then international format could be the default for those articles. A bot could probably put that header in all US articles. Other articles