Paul McNett wrote:
> 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")

Also, I can't get it to work on Ubuntu either.

Paul

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