GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 540281
Should use locale setting for displaying the date, etc
Last modified: 2018-07-02 10:38:31 UTC
Quoting http://bugs.debian.org/488084 : > Now that tasque can display my tasks, I noticed that it does not use > the locale setting to display the end date of them e.g. it will > display 7/11 for a task set to en on July the 11 but in French we > would write 11/7.
This actually depends on the translator. We have lines like this in Tasque: Catalog.GetString("M/d - ddd") And for the French translation, this should be translated to "d/M -ddd". This has not yet been done. Is there a smarter way to handle this that I'm not aware of?
In C it's possible to ask libc for the locale settings for displaying time, date, money, etc. Should be possible in C# too somehow :)
In bug #532765, we decided our current approach was OK, but I'll look into using the CultureInfo stuff in Mono. For now, I'm just going to treat this as a bug in the French translation.
By the way, this got fixed in the French translation along with Christophe Benz's update in r91. Leaving open, though, because we can do this better, I'm sure. :-)
I'm in New Zealand, and had the same issue with the date being displayed mm/dd rather than dd/mm. The 'quick fix', thanks to Sandy Armstrong, was to replace all of the M/d with d/M. The easiest way was to navigate to the sources directory and run the following line of python before compilation: perl -pi -w -e 's/M\/d/d\/M/g;' *.cs Just posting in case this helps somebody else.
This is also the case for UK users. What makes it even worse is the imput box for adding tasks is in the correct format d/M, however the display is done in M/d so I keep entering the date for my tasks in the wrong format.
*** Bug 600668 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
en_AU also should use European format.
Tasque is not under active development anymore and has not seen code changes for five years, and both its mailing lists have seen their last activity three years ago at https://mail.gnome.org/archives/tasque-list/ and https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/tasky Its codebase has been archived: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/tasque/commits/master Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this ticket (or rather transfer the project to GNOME Gitlab, as GNOME Bugzilla is deprecated) if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again.