Forum:Is it possible to have two buttons to switch between american and british dates, and feet/meters?

Would it be possible to add a button to the wiki interface that allows the user to switch between American and UK dates, aswell as a button to switch between English and Metric measurements? It would also be great if it saved a cookie, remembering your preferences? The wiki is rollercoaster.wikia.com. Thanks


 * Can someone help?


 * What exactly are you referring to? You can customise the date format in your Preferences to see it however you want for things like RecentChanges. There are no parts of the UI that use length measurements AFAIK. If you have dates in your articles, I suggest you look at ISO8601 (International Standard Date Format) which defines "2012-11-05 14:08:59" as the recommended way to write unambiguous dates for international consumption. If you have length/height measurements in your articles that you want to make convertable, that's very wiki specific and will require replacing all those measurements with a template then writing some JavaScript to switch/calculate between the two. Lunarity 02:14, November 5, 2012 (UTC


 * It's not the UI dates/measurements that I want to swap, rather the ones that are in our infoboxes. I would put it in a template (I knew that from the start), but what I need help on is the JavaScript (I know nothing about JS whatsoever).


 * Basically, I want it to behave like the top right on www.rcdb.com, or the "Preferences" page.