Re: Gnumeric ignores locale for dates

["Andreas J. Guelzow" <aguelzow math concordia ab ca>]

On Tue, 2007-19-06 at 22:58 +0200, Gerrit Holl wrote:
> > > You are not the first to report a locale problem when running gnmeric in
> > > the KDE desktop. Please, verify the locale passed to gnumeric with the
> > > getenv sheet function:
> > > =getenv("LC_ALL")

Could you please answer this question! The locale you see in a terminal
window might differ from that seen by gnumeric!

Andreas

> > If anyone gets to the bottom of this I'd be interested to hear
> > what's going on.  I've had users of my program, gretl, complain
> > that they're not getting the locale decimal point under Kubuntu
> > (where that's ',').
>
> I can give a little more detail. If I configure a cell to show
> European date notation, it accepts European date notation. But if I
> confiigure it to have YYYY-MM-DD, it does not. My locale settings are
> the same as under Fedora Core 4, my gnumeric version is probably newer
> (I don't have access to the old gnumeric version right now). The same
> is true for KDE. I didn't have the problem before.
>
> Some more info:
> 22:55:39:709:gerrit fionnay:~$ locale LC_TIME
> zo;ma;di;wo;do;vr;za
> zondag;maandag;dinsdag;woensdag;donderdag;vrijdag;zaterdag
> jan;feb;mrt;apr;mei;jun;jul;aug;sep;okt;nov;dec
> januari;februari;maart;april;mei;juni;juli;augustus;september;oktober;november;december
> ;
> %a %d %b %Y %T %Z
> %d-%m-%y
> %T
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> 0
> z
> 7
> 19971130
> 0
> 2
> 1
> 1
>
> %a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Z %Y
> UTF-8
>
>
> With this locale settings for LC_TIME, gnumeric still says 'May'
> rather than 'Mei' as well. Other programs (ls, date) have LC_TIME
> correctly. Perhaps the problem comes from running a gnome program in
> KDE on kubuntu...
>
> Gerrit.
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Andreas J. Guelzow, Professor
Dept. of Mathematical & Computing Sciences
Concordia University College of Alberta