Re: Localize time/date format?

Hi Peter,

>  > Use the CH+ and CH- buttons to adjust the brightness.  (There are two
>>  brightness settings actually, one for when it's on and one for when
>>  it's off.)
>
>Thanks Dean, but I already figured that one out ;)

Great.  I hope it wasn't hidden too well...

>But still it would be nice if one could disable the seconds since they
>can get a bit annoying since there's something happening on the display.
>But as I said, not really a big issue for me, and hey, it was Sean who
>brought it up in the first place ;)

Great.  Could you file a feature request for this on sourceforge?

>To get back to the localization thing: I think I'll change my mind again,
>or rather alter my view on it. It _would_ be nice to be able to customize
>the time/date format. Chosing the correct locale on the OS isn't enough
>since not only things like names of months, weekdays etc. differ.
>
>E.g. in the US you use "Thursday, March 21, 2002 6:09:56 PM" while we
>prefer "torsdag 21 mars, 2002 18:09:56" here in Sweden.
>
>The commas are placed a little different, and we use 24 hour-format as
>well. So it would be a good thing if one could specify the entire
>format-string as sent to strftime. An alternative could be to use %c
>which, according to the manpage for strftime gives "The preferred date and
>time representation for the current locale". But that might not be what
>everyone wants to see.

Right.  If that could also be filed as feature request.  One thing 
that would be nice would be if a default strftime string could be 
tied to the current language.  It wouldn't be exactly right for all 
languages, but would be much closer.

>But, of course, this isn't as important as the new features you guys are
>working on. Still a nice-to-have feature though.

Right on!

-dean


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