Re: [Vala] Date format

[Corentin Noël <corentin elementary io>]

Yeah getting a localized datetime is really not idea right now but it's
also linked to the fact that there are plenty of contexts to represent
the time.
For elementary we introduced a helper in our Granite library to share
the translations and keep consistency in all of our apps:
https://github.com/elementary/granite/blob/master/lib/DateTime.vala#L38

On mer., 2018-03-28 at 12:04 +0200, rastersoft wrote:
> Hi:
>
> > > Is it possible to print from a GLib.Date only the date, without
> > > the day
> > > of week, neither the time, nor timezone?
> >
> > Nearly a decade ago, I created GDateTime for GLib to give people a
> > modern API for dealing with these types of problems.
>
> In fact I'm already using GDateTime, sorry. But I still have the
> same 
> problem: the FORMAT method only supports the same tags than
> strftime(), 
> so when I use %x, it returns the date in the right format, as
> specified 
> by the locale, but shows only two digits in the year, I can't choose
> to 
> use four. But even worse: I can't show only the date in the format 
> "March 23, 2018" without using %c, but that adds some fields that I 
> don't want, like the timezone, and always forces the time.
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