On Monday 09 November 2009 03:09:21 pm Paul McNett wrote: > 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
I'm not dead sure but I think the way the above code would print depends on the default locale. In your case I bet it's 'en_US, UTF8'. If I'm correct then it is printing correctly. Johnf _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users Searchable Archives: http://leafe.com/archives/search/dabo-users This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/[email protected]
