GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 375351
Does not honor LC_DATE environment variable
Last modified: 2018-07-01 08:50:26 UTC
Please describe the problem: f-spot does use the correct date format when setting LANG to sv_SE, but not when just setting LC_DATE to sv_SE Steps to reproduce: run $ LANG= LC_DATE=sv_SE f-spot Actual results: f-spot uses US date formats. Expected results: It should use the Swedish date formats, like when running $ LANG=sv_SE f-spot Does this happen every time? Yes. Other information:
this is mono bug, it needs to be fixed at that level not the f-spot level.
Larry, it this bug already reported in upstream in mono ?
*** Bug 559100 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(Ok, good, I found this bug and did not submitted new one... Thanks, guys, for the f-spot program. It is not ideal, but very promising...) I faced the same problem. For some reasons, I like English interface (menus, messages, etc), but I hate US date format. I tried to set LC_TIME, but it does not work. I found a workaround: it is possible to set LANG=<desired date format> and LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8. It works like setting LC_TIME (not exactly, but quite similar). However, I would like to ask f-spot developers to introduce a Preference setting, something like check box "ISO date format" (or "ISO dates"). If it is checked, all the dates (and time) are output in ISO format, YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS. That would be great feature for me. Thanks.
Lev, there is an addin doing this, as this is not possible neither on system level (at least not easily) nor on gnome, nor mono, nor f-spot level. http://blog.wbou.de/f-spot
f-spot is not under active development anymore, has not seen code changes for five years, and saw its last tarball release in the year 2010. Its codebase has been archived: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/f-spot/commits/master Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality.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.