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Bug 676364 - It displays date formats which may not be correct in the current locale
It displays date formats which may not be correct in the current locale
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 687923
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: Region & Language
3.4.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-05-19 10:48 UTC by Changwoo Ryu
Modified: 2012-12-05 09:26 UTC
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Description Changwoo Ryu 2012-05-19 10:48:19 UTC 
Region & Language displays various date formats examples but they are not actually locale-aware formats, except the last format ("%x").

In panels/region/gnome-region-panel-formats.c:

	/* Display dates */
	display_date (GTK_LABEL (gtk_builder_get_object (builder, "full_date_format")), dt, "%A %e %B %Y");
	display_date (GTK_LABEL (gtk_builder_get_object (builder, "full_day_format")), dt, "%e %B %Y");
	display_date (GTK_LABEL (gtk_builder_get_object (builder, "short_day_format")), dt, "%e %b %Y");
	display_date (GTK_LABEL (gtk_builder_get_object (builder, "shortest_day_format")), dt, "%x");

The order of year, month, day-of-month and day-of-week is quite locale-dependent. There is no guarantee that they are in order of day-month-year.

What is purpose of displaying these 3 formats? They just confuse users.
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2012-12-05 09:26:29 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 687923 ***