gnomeweb-wml r6711 - trunk/projects.gnome.org/gnumeric



Author: mortenw
Date: Fri Mar 20 14:52:46 2009
New Revision: 6711
URL: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gnomeweb-wml?rev=6711&view=rev

Log:
Add short date/time format.



Modified:
   trunk/projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/date-time-formats.shtml

Modified: trunk/projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/date-time-formats.shtml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/date-time-formats.shtml	(original)
+++ trunk/projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/date-time-formats.shtml	Fri Mar 20 14:52:46 2009
@@ -4,12 +4,12 @@
       <div>
       <h1>Date and Time Formats</h1>
 
-<p>Goffice needs to know how dates and times are usually written in a locale.
-We do that using translations of a handful of strings like "*Long Date Format"
-and "*Short Time Format".  These strings should be translated to Excel format
-codes representing the right format.  If that makes no sense to you, drop by
-the Gnumeric IRC channel and ask.</p>
-<p>Most of these have reasonable defaults if you do not translate them or
+<p>Gnumeric and Goffice need to know how dates and times are usually written in
+a locale.  We do that using translations of a handful of strings like "*Long
+Date Format" and "*Short Time Format".  These strings should be translated to
+Excel format codes representing the right format.  If that makes no sense to
+you, drop by the &amp;Gnumeric IRC channel on irc.gnome.org and ask.</p>
+<p>Most of these have reasonable defaults if you do not translate them or 
 translate them to the empty string.  In fact, if the default works fine, please
 translate to an empty string.  You can try out a given format in Gnumeric:
 (1)&nbsp;Enter "1-Feb-2009" into cell A1.  (2)&nbsp;Select A1.  (3)&nbsp;Press
@@ -19,8 +19,9 @@
 time formats by country</a>.</p>
 
       <h2>Long Date Format</h1>
-<p>The US translation for this is "dddd, mmmm dd, yyyy" which translated to
-something like "Saturday, January 01, 2000".  <em>There is no good default for this.</em></p>
+<p>This is the most important format to translate because there is no good
+default for this.  The US version of this is "dddd, mmmm dd, yyyy" which translated to
+something like "Saturday, January 01, 2000".</p>
 
       <h2>Medium Date Format</h1>
 <p>This defaults to "d-mmm-yyyy".</p>
@@ -29,6 +30,10 @@
 <p>This defaults to "m/d/yy", "d/m/yy", or "yy/m/d" depending on whether the OS
 tells us that month, day, or year should come first.</p>
 
+      <h2>short Date/Time Format</h1>
+<p>This consists of two parts: a date and a time.  The date part defaults to
+the short date format.  The time part defaults to "h:mm".</p>
+
       <h2>Long Time Format</h1>
 <p>This defaults to "h:mm:ss AM/PM" or "hh:mm:ss" depending on whether the OS
 tells us that a 12 or 24 hour clock is in use.  Note, that the 12-hour clock



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