[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #5970: Applications do not know if 24-hour clock is in use
- From: "pulkomandy" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:51:23 -0000
#5970: Applications do not know if 24-hour clock is in use
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Reporter: Karvjorm | Owner: pulkomandy
Type: bug | Status: assigned
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: System | Version: R1/alpha2
Keywords: 24-hour clock Country Locale | Blockedby:
Patch: 0 | Platform: All
Blocking: |
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Changes (by pulkomandy):
* owner: nobody => pulkomandy
* status: new => assigned
Comment:
I don't understand the use of the "encoding" part of the patch, since
everything in Haiku is using utf-8.
As for dstcheck, one should use the formatter in BCountry, not strftime.
See the deskbar code for the proper way to do it. This is because we need
something more flexible, look at what happens if you select an arabic
language in the preflet, for example. The ":" character isn't even used,
and strftime can't handle such things.
Also, as ICU is handling most of the backend stuff, you don't need to
store the fact that the clock is 24 hours, and you don't even have to
decide if the clock is 12 or 24 hours. What if some country decides to use
a 30-hour day or something else ? Let ICU handle that, they know better
than us :)
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/5970#comment:3>
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