GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 639546
Banshee dates not properly localized
Last modified: 2020-03-17 08:47:57 UTC
Originally reported at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/702841 Binary package hint: banshee Banshee's dates in the track listing are shown as MM/DD/YYYY, rather than the localized format. This is present in at least de_DE as well as en_SG.UTF-8.
I can't reproduce this. Running Banshee w/ `LC_ALL=de_DE LANG=de_DE banshee-1` dates show up as "27.11.2007 ...". Is this really on git master? Hyperair, can you reproduce this?
Looking at the original bug report, the user has LANGUAGE=de_DE:de LANG=en_US.utf8 From what I understand, LANGUAGE is only for messages (string translations) and not locale (date formatting, etc.). See the following docs : http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/gettext/Locale-Environment-Variables.html http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/gettext/The-LANGUAGE-variable.html It seems that is what we do : "LANG=en_US.utf8 LANGUAGE=fr_FR banshee-1" gives me Banshee with French strings but dates in English format.
Yeah, I can reproduce this on git master. My LANG and LANGUAGE are set to en_SG.UTF-8, but my dates are MM/DD/YYYY. `date +%x` seems to show "Saturday 15,January,2011".
Sorry, correction: LANG=en_SG.utf8, LANGUAGE=en_SG:en
the information is provided, reopening...
Banshee is not under active development anymore and had its last code changes more than three years ago. Its codebase has been archived. 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 being shut down) if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again. See https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/Infrastructure/issues/264 for more info.