Re: clock format

["R.I.P. Deaddog" <deaddog deaddog org>]

On 2003-01-03(Fri) 00:58:10 +0100, Keld J?rn Simonsen wrote:
> For the same reason, that many locales do not have an AM/PM notation,
> because they are 24 hours, I would recommend that the "msgid" be changed to
> not use %I and %p. This would mean that gnome-panel is more likely not
> to generate erroneous or misleading figures. msgid should rather be
> "%H:%M:%S".
> 
> then the "en" versions should  be  msgstr "%l:%M:%S %p"

Then how about %X, which is supposed to be the 'preferred' time
representation for the corresponding locale?

Date representation has similar problem too. Currently translation
strings usually contain "%b %d, %Y" which is specific to a few countries
(or US only?). If there's some generic representation universally
accepted, that's the best; otherwise "%x" would be a good candidate to
represent dates.

Abel

> Kind regards
> Keld

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