https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16527
[email protected] changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- URL| |WONTFIX --- Comment #2 from [email protected] --- Many numerical date forms can create confusion when used in international correspondence, particularly when abbreviating the year to its final two digits, with no context. The US notation and the French one both use slashes as separators. Therefore American and French dates are prone to be misunderstood! In most parts of the world (including the United Nations and all Patent offices) the "little endian" (day leftmost, year right most) format is customary as it is in many languages. Most international users apply a dot as separator, unfortunately the French use a slash for that. Unfortunately little endian date formats don't sort easily if expressend in textual form. ISO and some countries (standard in East Asia, Iran, Lithuania, Hungary, and Sweden; and some other countries to a limited extent) use "big endian format" where the year is leftmost. If there is a separator, a minus sign is used for it. Such a date is easily recognized by this formatting (although in ISO there is alos a reduced form without dashes). If the separators are used consistently and if the number of digits for the day is not degenerated to a single one this format is the one where lexical order is the logical order. Only in US and Canadian non-government use the M/D/YY-format is customary (the British stopped to do so around the middle of last century, Canada is in the transit from American date towards ISO notation). In the US the slash is customary as separator. In France little endian is used with slashes: they will locate 9/11/06 (for a German 9.11.06) on 2006-11-09, whereas an American reader would locate it on 2006-09-11! By the way, this site uses ISO-Formatting of time stamps to be unambiguously understood all around the world! Some Unixers however express dates in the discordian notation - well understood only among conspirators. I don't think it would be difficult to make Thunar's fourth choice the default one such that dates shown in Thunar on a system from a live stick or on a freshly installed system will be understood by everyone! -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. _______________________________________________ Xfce-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://mail.xfce.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce-bugs
