Re: [Evolution] Locale-dependent features

[Damon Chaplin <damon ximian com>]

Ilya Konstantinov wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 05:37:29PM +0000, Damon Chaplin wrote:
> > I can't see a way of determining which format is preferred in the
> > current locale. In strftime() I think you have to choose explicitly
> >  - even with a LANG of en_US it uses 24-hour format for the preferred
> > time format "%X", when the preferred format is really 12-hour.
> > If we could figure this out then we could use it as the default setting.
>
> Right. localeconv(1) allows you to fetch LOCALE-specific glibc settings
> for your current LOCALE, including t_fmt, the time formatting string in
> strftime() format. In 12-hour countries, it'll contain either "%i",
> "%l" or "%r", while in 24-hour countries, it'll contain either "%H",
> "%k", "%R" or "%T";
>
> For example, /usr/share/i18n/locales/he_IL contains "%H:%M:%S" in
> t_fmt (in a Unicode form), while en_US contains "%r" (which is a
> 12-hour time, according to strftime).

Unfortunately struct lconv doesn't have a "t_fmt" field on my system
(RedHat 6.2, glibc 2.1.3-15)

Damon