Paul McNett wrote:
> Miguel Lopes wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 9:59 PM, Paul McNett <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Paul McNett wrote:
>>>> However, it should be defaulting to the user's localization settings for
>>>> short date
>>>> format (operating on the principle that the user should be in ultimate
>>>> control over
>>>> the formatting of things). If it isn't, please let us know!
>>> I just confirmed that this is working on Windows XP. I went into 'regional
>>> and
>>> language settings', and selected "English (United Kingdom)" and then
>>> started my app.
>>> All the dates were messed up with the day showing before the month. :)
>>>
>>> Paul
>> I don't get the same on OSX Leopard (10.5.8)
>> I went to System Preferences | International | Formats
>> and then choosing alternative selections in the Region dropdown has no
>> effect on dabo's date formatting.
>>
>> My dates are still messed up with the day showing after the month. :)
>
> Dabo just delegates this to Python, using time.strftime() with the format of
> "%x". So
> I guess something on Mac isn't working correctly. What version of Python?
I can confirm this problem on Mac Leopard 10.5.7, using python 2.5.4:
>>> import datetime
>>> d = datetime.date.today()
>>> d
datetime.date(2009, 11, 9)
>>> import time
>>> print time.strftime("%x", d.timetuple())
11/09/09
(should have been "2009/11/09")
Paul
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