From: Ismo J. Makinen (ism@sci.fi)
Date: Mon Apr 15 2002 - 14:31:03 EDT
Is it possible to use my locale's date/time format?
All the Insert/Date and TIme and Insert/Field: Date and Time
options are in English although my locale is FInnish (fi-FI).
The problem is that the date separator should be . (point),
not / (slash).
In Insert/Date and Time the first and second options are
(using today's date)
04/15/02
Monday, April 15, 2002
They should be (in Finnish)
15.04.2002
Maanantai, 15. huhtikuuta 2002
As you can see, the default date separator should be . and the default
order should be dd.mm.yyyy
Is there any way to use Finnish month and day names?
The funny thing is when I choose Insert Field/Date and Time/Time Zone
I get "Suomen kesäaika", which is correct (Finnish summer time)
Is this some kind of configuration problem or can't we localize
date/time?
I am using Win95B and Control Panel/Regional settings are correct
(FInnish; date separator is '.', default date format is dd.mm.yyy).
Another reason why I ask this is:
In fi-FI.strings file there are FIELD_DateTime.. strings.
As a FInnish locale translator I should translate them
into Finnish. I could do that, but it would be misleading
because I allways get the english version format.
IE. FIELD_DateTime_Wkday="The Weekday" should be
FIELD_DateTime_Wkday="Viikonpäivä"
(I can't get 100% - correct - translation ;)
When I try that command I get "Monday". I should get "Maanantai".
I could define FIELD_DateTime_DDMMYY="dd/mm/yy" as
FIELD_DateTime_DDMMYY="dd.mm.yy" but I still get 15/04/02, not
15.04.02 and so on.
I hope this should just work. It seems rather stupid that
you have Insert/Date and time dialogue but you can't insert
your language's correct date formats (time format separator : is OK,
the same in FInnish). I hope I am missing something obvious here.
Sorry if I sound a little frustrated.
-- Ismo Mäkinen
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