Re: date/time format is not convenient
- From: "Prof. John C Nash" <nashjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: emelfm2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 17:24:01 -0500
I don't know emelfm2 internals, but wonder if adding a bash "date" command
format string
option to the date choice would be a possibility.
JN
On 03/09/2011 05:06 PM, tpgww@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Mar 2011 21:44:52 +0300
> BrainWorker BrainWorker <owl.brainworker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> There are five fixed variants of date/time format to choose from, but
>> none of them fits me (at least me).
>>
>> I think the solution is very simple. Apart from the fixed variants,
>> there must be the way to set any format that user likes. The most
>> obvious way is to let user define his own format with parameters of
>> strftime function. That's it. With that parameters ANY wish can be
>> satisfied. For example, I would like to see usual form YYYY-MM-DD
>> HH:mm:ss, but I can't with given fixed variants.
>
> Simple concept, a bit tricky to implement well in e2.
>
> Because the configuration GUI is split between basic and advanced (where such
> custom date formatting would surely belong), we'd need to figure out a
> mechanism for sensibly handling a disabled option (the current format-picker)
> in basic mode, without confusing users too much.
>
> I'm happy to try to make this work properly, when I get a bit of time.
>
> Regards
> Tom
>
>
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