Re: translating clock.schemas.in in gnome-panel

["Pedro M. (Morphix User)" <pmacv telefonica net>]

Mark McLoughlin escribió:

>Hi,
>
>On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 18:02, Åsmund Skjæveland wrote:
>  
>
>>>	Basically, we allow translators to change the default clock format to
>>>either 12 or 24 hour format. In 2.6, the new clock_format key is used
>>>for this rather than the hour_format key. The key can have either
>>>"24-hour" or "12-hour" as its value.
>>>
>>>	Unfortunately, most translators didn't realize this and translated the
>>>"hour" part into their native language and the clock applet can't handle
>>>these values.
>>>      
>>>
>>I don't fully understand your change as you describe it. (Please also 
>>explain your code to us. I don't think I'm the only one here that 
>>doesn't speak regex like a native.) But if I understand the CVS log 
>>correctly, you've fixed the offending string in the PO files?
>>    
>>
>
>	Basically, this string is marked for translation to allow translators
>specify whether the default clock format should be in 12 or 24 hour
>format.
>
>	Because the clock applet only understands the values "12-hour" or
>"24-hour", translators shouldn't actually translate the string into
>their native language but should specify either "12-hour" or "24-hour".
>
>	The script I showed basically goes through all the .po files and looks
>for the line:
>
>	msgid "24-hour"
>
>	and then replaces the line after that with 'msgstr "12-hour"' or
>'msgstr "24-hour"' depending on how the translator had translated the
>string.
>
>	All the .po files should be fixed, but translators should be aware that
>this string should not actually be translated to anything but "12-hour"
>or "24-hour".
>
>Thanks,
>Mark.
>
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I would like to see too the UTC time ( or have a button to see it easily).

Nowadays UTC time is very important, specially for Internet meetings 
(i.e. concert, chats, conferences and so on ) 
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC