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Bug 752303 - English translation of date/time format is wrong
English translation of date/time format is wrong
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-desktop
Classification: Core
Component: general
git master
Other Linux
: Normal major
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Assigned To: Desktop Maintainers
Desktop Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2015-07-13 05:24 UTC by Jean Bruno Jauvin
Modified: 2015-09-07 16:03 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 3.15/3.16

Attachments
po: Fix English US translations (1.43 KB, patch)
2015-07-15 15:59 UTC, Bastien Nocera 		committed Details | Review

Description Jean Bruno Jauvin 2015-07-13 05:24:09 UTC 
In gnome-desktop/po/en.po, strings most strings do not respect correct English US format.
i.e. 
<quote>
#. Translators: This is the time format with full date used
#. in 24-hour mode.
#: ../libgnome-desktop/gnome-wall-clock.c:238
msgid "%a %b %e, %R:%S"
msgstr "%a %e %b, %H∶%M∶%S"
</quote>
should be
<quote>
#. Translators: This is the time format with full date used
#. in 24-hour mode.
#: ../libgnome-desktop/gnome-wall-clock.c:238
msgid "%a %b %e, %R:%S"
msgstr "%a %b %e, %H∶%M∶%S"
</quote>

P.S. Sorry if my bug report doesn't respect the correct format for a bug report, but it is my first time posting a bug.
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2015-07-15 08:48:13 UTC 
Matthias, I'm guessing en.po was copied from the original en_GB.po file, right?
Comment 2 Matthias Clasen 2015-07-15 11:53:19 UTC 
Not that I remember. The commit message says "The only difference from C is that the ratio is used". But as the but points out, in some places, I also switched %b and %e. Note sure how that happened, but it seems to contradict the commit message.
Comment 3 Bastien Nocera 2015-07-15 15:59:36 UTC 
Created attachment 307485 [details] [review]
po: Fix English US translations

The default English translation, used for US English, and other
untranslated English locales (so, not en_GB or en_CA) should match
the default "untranslated" strings.

This was lost when support for ratio separators was added.
Comment 4 Jean Bruno Jauvin 2015-09-07 15:57:21 UTC 
Will it be fixed in Gnome 3.18?
Comment 5 Bastien Nocera 2015-09-07 16:03:39 UTC 
Attachment 307485 [details] pushed as 4c35a82 - po: Fix English US translations