Re: Preferences, System Tools

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Sun, 2004-06-06 at 14:15 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 19:06, Curtis Hovey wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 15:01 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote
> > > Internationalization
> > >       * Keyboard layout
> > >         (may additionally have a panel presence) 
> > >       * Language
> > 
> > What of locale?  Are date and number formats implicit in the items
> > above?
> 
> I would assume those come from the active language/locale yes. Not sure
> we need "English messages and French number format" in the GUI.

I hate proposing this kind of cruft, but I think date format would be
useful.  US seems fond of mm-dd-yyyy, which I think is a pretty stupid
format.  Also, being able to select the date format would let people
choose how verbose they want it (e.g. '2004-06-06' or 'Jun 6, 2004' or
'Sunday, the Sixth Day of the Month of June, in the Two Thousand and
Fourth Year of our Lord').

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Shaun