Re: 24-hour or 12-our clock and %p

[Ask Hjorth Larsen <asklarsen gmail com>]

Well, I think the best option is number 2.  It produces things that
are correct in Danish (05:00 and 17:00 can both be "5 o'clock" in
normal non-computer speech) which, although quite useless due to the
ambiguity, is not a problem because no Danish user should/would be
using 12-hour clock setting anyway.

In the end the problem is that those strings have no reason to exist
in the language and therefore it's not well defined how they should be
translated.  Instead of making things easier, it causes headaches like
zero divided by zero.  I conclude that it doesn't matter much, and
rule that the Danish convention in GNOME from now on is option 2 :)

Thank you very much!

Best regards
Ask

2015-03-02 16:48 GMT+01:00 Rafael Ferreira <rafael f f1 gmail com>:
> 2015-03-02 8:49 GMT-03:00 Alexandre Franke <alexandre franke gmail com>:
> > On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 12:08 PM,  <keld keldix com> wrote:
> > > For Danish, ther is no 12-hour format. The best is then to leave the specification blank.
> >
> > This is a terrible suggestion. You should never leave a string blank.
> > If you intend to use the same as the original version, you should copy
> > it.
> >
> > > Alternatively you can make the 12-hour format the same as the 24-hour format.
> >
> > If by that you mean using %H, then again this is a terrible suggestion
> > (see earlier mail in this thread, this will appear as a bug to the
> > user).
>
>
> It looks to me that both 1 and 3 will represent a bug in Danish
> localization. Forcing 24-hour (option 1) will show a weird 12-hour
> button that returns 24-hour, while using 12-hour (option 3) will show
> a 12-hour clock that doesn't exists in Danish language and therefore
> is weird.
>
> How about requesting the developer to hide the 12-hour option when
> language is Danish?
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