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