On 21/09/2010 16:16, Paul J Stevens wrote:
- The date format (and number format) is linked to the language. But
sometimes
users would prefer an other one. Per example if you are a french
guy and you
must work with Tryton in English (corporate policy), you will
find annoying
to use the english date format.
Allow to define a custom date format (and number format) on user
preferences
(in the client interface) and use it for the client display.
Reports or any things else will still use the default date format
defined on
the language.
If it is corporate policy to work in foreign language, date and
number format
belong to it. It could even be corporate policy to not *allow* the
user to
change any display format.
I don't want to step on any toes here, but imo Cédric does have a point.
Having to enter the date format in the (rather silly) english format
just because the client doesn't support or obey the locale active in
the client is just plain annoying and will easily lead to erroneous
dataentry.
It is quite common to use the default en_EN or en_US locale while
actually wanting to print on DIN-A4 and enter dates in either ISO or
european formats. In fact, one of my previous co-workers submitted a
en_NL locale to ubuntu specifically for that purpose.
So maybe the client could somehow detect and use the locale active on
the desktop, if only for stuff like datetime-formats, paper-size, etc...
Hi All,
A bit late into the discussion but I have a situation here. In the UK
despite having English as the language, en_GB date format is dd/mm/yyyy
while the default US english has mm/dd/yyyy. This is reason for a lot of
confusion, and adding of a new language would mean maintaining the
translations for it. Its the same for India en_IN, where the language
(English) remains the same while date format changes.
The proposal by Cedk, IMHO addresses this issue.
Thanks,
Sharoon Thomas
Openlabs Technologies & Consulting (P) LTD.
http://openlabs.co.in
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