Re: clock format

[Keld Jørn Simonsen <keld dkuug dk>]

On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 10:34:47AM +0800, R.I.P. Deaddog wrote:
> On 2003-01-03(Fri) 00:58:10 +0100, Keld J?rn Simonsen wrote:
> > For the same reason, that many locales do not have an AM/PM notation,
> > because they are 24 hours, I would recommend that the "msgid" be changed to
> > not use %I and %p. This would mean that gnome-panel is more likely not
> > to generate erroneous or misleading figures. msgid should rather be
> > "%H:%M:%S".
> > 
> > then the "en" versions should  be  msgstr "%l:%M:%S %p"
> 
> Then how about %X, which is supposed to be the 'preferred' time
> representation for the corresponding locale?
> 
> Date representation has similar problem too. Currently translation
> strings usually contain "%b %d, %Y" which is specific to a few countries
> (or US only?). If there's some generic representation universally
> accepted, that's the best; otherwise "%x" would be a good candidate to
> represent dates.

Yes, I think %X and %x are better solutions, as it would even work for
English

Kind regards
Keld