Re: [Gramps-devel] WINDOWS: Date parser for English_Australia

[Benny M. <ben...@gm...>]

2008/10/24 Martin Steer <mar...@ma...>

> Martin Steer <mar...@ma...> writes:
>
> >
> > This default is wrong for Australia, which follows British date
> > conventions rather than US ones.
> >
>
> Sorry for the noise. Benny's reply to the OP suffices (almost):
>
> >> About the format of date not being correct, this depends on your
> >> installed locale. If the locale on your box says to use mm/dd/yyyy,
> >> then that will be used for numbers, otherwise dd/mm/yyyy. This is
> >> line 199 in _DateParser, using tformat to see the order of day and
> >> month in your locale In display however, GRAMPS shows what you set in
> >> the preferences, so you control that. Note that we cannot display
> >> something like 12/12/2008, but we can parse it (the reason being that
> >> you could then set something different as display than what the
> >> parser takes, leading to an obvious error of months and days
> >> switching everytime you save.)
>
> ...but 12/12/2008 does display here, with locale = en_GB.utf8. What am I
> failing to understand?


Sorry, I spoke from memory, and I have Dutch here on my box. I see that
DateDisplayEn has format 'Numerical' which uses the tformat of the locale to
show numerical day as 12/12/2008. So Numerical means something different
depending on the english locale used, and all is consistent (the display and
the parsing are done according to the locale for numerical).

It follows there is theoretically an error in the code, a month can be %b
instead of %m .... The eyeballs method of open source in action.... Let's
hope no english locales have default 02 jan 2008, which is %d %b %Y

Benny


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