On Thursday 13 December 2001 03:59 pm, Michael P JasonSmith wrote: > James Henstridge wrote: > > Michael P JasonSmith wrote: > > >The GnomeDateEdit widget insists in displaying the dates in mm/dd/yyyy
The ISO [1], the IETF[2] , the W3C [3], and the U.S. government [4] recomend formating a date using yyyy-mm-dd. Unfortunately traditions prevales and dates written in the 09/01/01 format continue to be used. (So will they be delivering the new furniture on September 1, 2001 or January 9, 2001.) Hopefully the Gnome project will change the default date to the ISO recommendation. Perhaps the use of the broken/obsolete date formats can be discouraged by making it painful to use the option. (Perhaps selecting one of the older ambiguous options should emmit shocks through the mouse or the keyboard:-) Whoever created the GnomeDateEdit widget may find the following references helpful: [1]http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/CatalogueDetailPage.CatalogueDetail?CSNUMBER=26780 [2] http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-impp-datetime-05.txt [3]http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime [4] NIST FIPS 4.2 - http://www.itl.nist.gov/fipspubs/fip4-2.pdf > > >format. > > [snip] > > > This is not a pygtk bug, and most likely won't be fixed in > > gnome-libs-1.x. > > > > In the 2.0 tree, it uses the strftime "%x" format string, so it > > internationalises correctly (ie. doesn't use silly date order in en_AU). > > Thanks for that, James. After discussing it with my boss we decided to > document the bug, and switch to Gnome 2.x this time next year, rather > than hack the libs :). _______________________________________________ pygtk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk
