#18 Date inconsistency

[Anonymous]

I'm running winXP SP1 on a NORWEGIAN system.
Our date notation differ from the normal mm/dd/yy,
instead we have dd/mm/yy.
A note doesn't count this in when it's writing down the
dates in notes.xml. So when i set an alarm date, 6th
September, 2004, A note writes 06/09/2004 to notes.xml
(encoded of course). And when it reads notes.xml, it'll
read in the mm/dd/yy format, which means 9th June,
2004. Kinda frustrating every time i restart A notes (or
the computer for that sake) I hear the alarm sound and
have to reset the alarm to the correct date.
I'm currently looking into temporarily fixing it myself, but
I'm no c++ guru.

[Aaron Hochwimmer]

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I'm no c++ guru unfortunately but can spot the issue:

line 343 of mainfrm.cpp

StringEncode (pNote->GetAlarm ().Format ("%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S")),

Must be a system variable to obtain the locale %m/%d/%Y but
what?

that and also in notes.cpp the GetDefaultTitle method the
date format is hard-coded to %m/%d/%y

Could a preference be added to set this format string rather
than have it hard-coded?

I'd make a sourceforge donation if this got some priority to
be fixed :)

[Trilarion]

This is serious and should be corrected by the used locale. I will try to fix this as one of the next steps.