Re: Localized Date/Time?

From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Apr 15 2002 - 23:46:58 EDT

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     --- "Ismo J. Makinen" <ism@sci.fi> wrote: > 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.

    This sounds like a bug for the L10N section on
    http://bugzilla.abisource.com so go ahead and file it.

    Andrew Dunbar.

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