Hello, I'm here to discuss about the possibility to change the timestamp format of incoming and outgoing messages. The bug link is here: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=623934
Currently in empathy defines in empathy-time.h the default format of time and date: #define EMPATHY_TIME_FORMAT_DISPLAY_SHORT "%H:%M" #define EMPATHY_TIME_FORMAT_DISPLAY_LONG "%a %d %b %Y" As you can see, those formats are static and does not depend on the current locale. For example in USA %H:%M is not the preferred format, because they use 12 hour plus AM/PM. The same for the date, which is not "day" "number" "month" "year", but "day" "month" "number" "year". Currently the time is generated using strftime which is capable of handling the preferred locale format using the following combinations: %X the preferred time format without date (including seconds) %x the preferred date format without time (expressed using numbers) %c the complete time format with date and time (expressed in abbreviated names) EXAMPLES: %X en_US.utf8 = 11:44:26 PM it_IT.utf8 = 23:44:26 %x en_US.utf8 = 07/12/2010 it_IT.utf8 = 12/07/2010 %c en_US.utf8 = Mon 12 Jul 2010 11:45:39 PM CEST [*] it_IT.utf8 = lun 12 lug 2010 23:47:33 CEST [*] this is actually a bug because it should be Jul 12, and it is correct using en_US without the utf8 modifier Actually the best replacements would be #define EMPATHY_TIME_FORMAT_DISPLAY_SHORT "%X" #define EMPATHY_TIME_FORMAT_DISPLAY_LONG "%x" a) unfortunately %X adds the seconds, which are now hidden b) I'd choose %x because %c is a little too verbose, and originally EMPATHY_TIME_FORMAT_DISPLAY_LONG does not contain the time. It is actually used when searcing for chat logs to display the date of the conversation. Unfortunately the previous way to show also showed the day name. Actually I don't know any other way of following the locale preferred formats, so these are the only possibilities to choose. I'd also like to point out an improvement we can make: when displaying logs, we should automatically append the date to the messages. I have this opinion because when I open a chat window, some logs appear automatically (actually 4 or 5, I don't remember). I'd really think that displaying also the date in the logs (it it's different than today) would really be a good improvement, and I think it can be changed without much work. If you agree I'll try to handle this and propose a patch (I'll can the work in a few days). What is your opinion? _______________________________________________ telepathy mailing list telepathy@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/telepathy
