Date Time Locales

function saveBrowserLocaleToSession() {
  browserLocale=dojo.locale;
  dojo.xhrPost({
    url: "../tool/saveDataToSession.php?id=browserLocale&value=" + browserLocale,
    load: function(data,args) { }
  });
  var date = new Date(2000, 11, 31, 0, 0, 0, 0);
  var formatted=dojo.date.locale.format(date);
  var format="YYYYMMDD";
  if (formatted.substr(0,2)=='31') {
    format='DDMMYYYY';  
  } else if (formatted.substr(0,2)=='12') {
	format='MMDDYYYY';
  }
  dojo.xhrPost({
    url: "../tool/saveDataToSession.php?id=browserLocaleDateFormat&value=" + format,
    load: function(data,args) { }
  });
}

function setupLocale () {
  global $currentLocale, $paramDefaultLocale, $browserLocale, $browserLocaleDateFormat;
  if (isset($_SESSION['currentLocale'])) {
    // First fetch in Session (filled in at login depending on user parameter)
    $currentLocale=$_SESSION['currentLocale'];
  } else if (isset($_REQUEST['currentLocale'])) {
    // Second fetch from request (for screens before user id identified)
    $currentLocale=$_REQUEST['currentLocale'];
    $_SESSION['currentLocale']=$currentLocale;
    $i18nMessages=null; // Should be null at this moment, just to be sure
  } else {
    // none of the above methods worked : get the default one form parameter file
    $currentLocale=$paramDefaultLocale;
  }
  if (isset($_SESSION['browserLocale'])) {
    $browserLocale=$_SESSION['browserLocale'];
  } else {
    $browserLocale=$currentLocale;
  }
  $_SESSION['lang']=$currentLocale; // Must be kept for user parameter screen initialization
  if (isset($_SESSION['browserLocaleDateFormat'])) {
    $browserLocaleDateFormat=$_SESSION['browserLocaleDateFormat'];
  } else {
    $browserLocale='YYYYMMDD';
  }
}

function htmlFormatDate($val) {
  global $browserLocaleDateFormat;
  if (strlen($val)!=10) {
    return $val;
  }
  if ($browserLocaleDateFormat=='MMDDYYYY') {
    return substr($val,5,2) . "/" . substr($val,8,2)  . "/" . substr($val,0,4);
  } else if ($browserLocaleDateFormat=='DDMMYYYY') {
    return substr($val,8,2) . "/" . substr($val,5,2)  . "/" . substr($val,0,4);
  } else {
  	return $val;
  }
}